Dockerize Laravel with a tested multi-stage Dockerfile, nginx and Compose queue worker: 771 MB down to 187 MB, 19.7s rebuilds, plus the MySQL healthcheck trap.
Scale Laravel with Redis: a measured cache stampede, queue timeout rules, Horizon config, and the shared-Redis eviction trap that silently deletes jobs.
Laravel zero downtime deployment with GitHub Actions tests, a symlink deploy script tested on real Laravel, /up health gate, rollbacks, and Forge vs Envoyer pricing.
ElevenLabs vs OpenAI TTS compared on official prices per 1M characters, request and concurrency limits, with a clear rule for which to pick.
In my Python benchmark, SQLite WAL with synchronous=FULL ran 10,000 single-row inserts about 4.1x faster than DELETE mode and had 0 BUSY errors against 62 writer and 117 reader.
Verify an HMAC-SHA256 webhook signature in Express with express.raw and timingSafeEqual, with real output for five cases including the express.json bug.
Rerunnable Node.js benchmark of sharp vs jimp resizing 12 JPEGs: speed, memory, file size, SSIM on real images, and when jimp's pure-JS install still wins.
Why Laravel's queue:retry-batch can silently do nothing on a cancelled batch, and how to recover failed batch jobs safely with a ledger. Tested up to 10,000 jobs.
A Laravel testing strategy with measured costs: what to unit, feature and browser test, shown with a small Pest app and three injected bugs.
Measured PostgreSQL performance tuning on a 5M-row table: read EXPLAIN BUFFERS, add composite and partial indexes, fix OFFSET paging, and size PgBouncer.
Build an idempotency key API on Postgres: schema, concurrent duplicate handling, key reuse checks and expiry, with a parallel test proving one execution.
In January 2021, CVE-2021-3129 showed how much damage one config value can do. On any Laravel app running facade/ignition older than 2.5.2 with APPDEBUG=true, an unauthenticated attacker could…