🚦🧰🧠 Queue Backpressure Mastery in Laravel: Horizon Tuning, DLQs, and Thundering-Herd Prevention1) Why backpressure matters (and why it fails in real life) 🔬 Your queues are healthy — until they aren’t. Bursty traffic, a cold cache…1d agoA response icon11d agoA response icon1
🚀🔐 Multi-Tenancy at Scale in PHP/Laravel: Should You Go Database-Per-Tenant or Row-Level…1) Why this matters now 🔭 When you hit 50–500+ customers (tenants), small architectural choices snowball into big operational realities…3d agoA response icon13d agoA response icon1
🔁🧾 Transactional Outbox & Idempotency in Laravel: Exactly-Once Effects over At-Least-Once…TL;DR: We’ll make payments, emails, and background jobs “effectively exactly once” using two battle-tested ideas: idempotency keys at the…5d agoA response icon25d agoA response icon2
🔥 Production Flamegraphs for PHP: eBPF/XHProf/Blackfire and the Art of Fixing the Real BottleneckWhy flamegraphs in prod matter 🔭 Benchmarks lie, traffic tells the truth. When your p95 jumps at 20:00, the only reliable way to…Nov 1Nov 1
🚨🧭 Incident-Driven Architecture for Laravel: From On-Call Pages to Better System DesignIncidents are architecture speaking in all caps. Every late-night pager, 500 response, or slow checkout is your system telling you where…Oct 30A response icon1Oct 30A response icon1
💸 Cost-Aware PHP: Turning p95 Latency into Cloud Savings (Without Breaking Your SLA) 🚀Most teams scale Laravel apps by “feel”: bump the instance size, add two more Horizon workers, toss a Redis node at it — and pray the bill…Oct 28Oct 28
🏁 Operational Feature Flags in Laravel: Dark Launches, Targeting, and Instant Kill-SwitchesShipping fast is easy. Shipping fast and safe is a discipline. Feature flags are the sharpest tool we have for decoupling deploy from…Oct 26Oct 26
🛡️ Resilience Patterns in PHP: Timeouts, Retries with Jitter, Circuit Breakers, and BulkheadsResilience isn’t a library you install — it’s a set of habits. In PHP backends (Laravel, Symfony), most incidents come from I/O flakiness…Oct 24A response icon1Oct 24A response icon1
🚀 Zero-Downtime Migrations in Laravel: Expand/Contract, Dual-Writes, and Safe Backfills 🧬Shipping database changes shouldn’t feel like cutting the red wire in a thriller. With the right patterns, you can evolve schemas under…Oct 22A response icon2Oct 22A response icon2
🧠 Type-Safe Domain Models: Building Architectural Integrity with PHPStan & PsalmSoftware architecture isn’t just about organizing files — it’s about preserving meaning. When we talk about “type-safe domain models,”…Oct 20A response icon3Oct 20A response icon3