From 100% CPU to 68%: How We Saved 1M Database Updates from Crashing
"Handling 1M database updates triggered by a dashboard button. We decoupled PHP's synchronous timeout using RabbitMQ and a batch-processing Go worker.…
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Scaling Laravel: Mastering CQRS Architecture 🏗️
The Bottleneck of Traditional CRUD When you build a standard Laravel application, you typically follow the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) paradig…
Deploying Laravel with Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04
Laravel is a popular PHP framework with routing, authentication, and database management built in. This guide deploys a Laravel app behind Nginx on Ub…
🛡️ Building AbilityGuard: Monitoring the WordPress Abilities API in Production
A few weeks ago I wrote about the WordPress Abilities API — what it is, why WordPress 6.9 shipped it, and what it means for how plugins will talk to e…
TalaDB - database ToolKit for php
I'm designing a database toolkit for PHP. Here's my architecture. What problems do you see? https://github.com/NoobGreggy/TalaDB
Shared-Database Multi-Tenancy in Laravel: The Foundation Layer
TL;DR Shared-database multi-tenancy = one database, every row tagged with tenant_id , a global scope that filters automatically. Three moving parts: a…
Admin-editable SEO & analytics without touching .env
TL;DR Shipped a SEO + analytics baseline in Kickoff : meta/OG, canonical, JSON-LD org schema, dynamic robots.txt , sitemap, and admin-editable GA4/GTM…
Constraining the Agent: What I Learned Wiring MCP Into a Legacy System
Notes from January 2026, when giving an AI agent live database access still felt reckless. Written for engineers who are about to do this, and for the…
Getting Started with Shopware 6 Development
Shopware 6 is a modern, API-first e-commerce platform built on Symfony and Vue.js. If you're coming from Shopware 5 or another platform, the architect…
Build a Multi-Tenant SaaS in Laravel 🏢
The SaaS Scaling Challenge When building B2B SaaS applications, you inevitably hit the "Tenancy" crossroad. You have hundreds of companies using your …
Running a WordPress major upgrade step by step with WP-CLI — commands and checkpoints for each stage
The W series has covered what to check before a major upgrade , when to apply it , and what can go wrong . This fourth part covers the remaining quest…
Turning an existing database into a documented Laravel API
The projects I dread are the ones where the database is the only documentation. Twenty tables, foreign keys, years of production data, and either no A…
Stop Overwriting Your Data: Event Sourcing in Laravel 🕰️
The Problem with Traditional State Most Laravel applications rely on standard CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) architecture. When a user changes th…
Ebook Reviewer Wanted: Help Me Find What's Gone Stale
Technical books have a shelf life that nobody prints on the cover. A cookbook from 2018 still works. A history book from 2018 still works. A Laravel b…
Supercharge Your Algorithmic Trading with CoinQuant PHP: The Ultimate SDK for Laravel and PHP 8.1+
Are you tired of wrestling with raw cURL requests, parsing Server-Sent Events (SSE) by hand, and building complex polling loops just to interact with …
Why Developers Are Choosing Advanced PHP Technology Over Newer Languages in 2026
Key Takeaways PHP 8.x is genuinely fast. JIT compilation brought real-world performance improvements that close the gap with languages that were previ…
🐘 Like... TypeScript for PHP? Yes. And it's not what you think
It is time to bring opposites together, to stir up these stagnant waters, and to restore an industry that is dynamic from within, with multiple connec…
Building an Email Broadcast Engine That Survives Retries
TL;DR Shipped an email broadcast feature: audience filter → suppression gate → one queued job per recipient → per-recipient status ledger. The whole d…
Your Seeder Should Describe a Shape, Not Your Laptop
TL;DR Rewrote a bootstrap seeder so the deployment stack — DB engine, queue runner, PHP version — is config, not hardcoded. Renamed it away from a pha…
How We Distribute Video Events Across Regions With NATS JetStream
When a new video shows up in one of our regional crawlers, three things need to happen almost immediately: the SQLite FTS5 search index for that regio…
The Ideal Cart: 5 Design Patterns That Earn Their Keep (and 2 Refused)
It all starts with a review question. I was reworking my notes on the Design Patterns book , the Gang of Four one, with examples that all came from th…
Building AI Agents in PHP: Tool Calling with Laravel
The problem: chat that can only talk The chatbot from earlier in this series can answer questions, but ask it "how many orders did we ship yesterday?"…
How to generate course completion certificates from HTML in Laravel
First published on the Accreditly blog . When someone finishes a course in your Laravel app they want proof: a certificate they can download, print an…
Building a Complex WordPress Platform from Scratch
Hi my name is Perceval Hasselman and I'm and Building a simple WordPress website is one thing. Building a scalable platform with user accounts, custom…
Dev Log: 2026-07-14
TL;DR Fast-forwarded two Laravel apps off an old in-house skeleton — in layers, not one heroic merge. Added a security-header middleware and a retenti…
The Reconciler Pattern: When a Queued Job Simply Never Runs
TL;DR A job dispatched once , at row-creation time, has a silent failure mode: if that dispatch is lost, the row sits pending forever — and never appe…
The Specification Pattern in Laravel: Refactoring Complex Business Rules
As our Laravel applications grow, we inevitably face a common architectural dilemma: where do we put complex business logic that dictates whether an e…
Testing Laravel Events and Listeners: Ensuring Reliable Asynchronous Workflows
In modern Laravel applications, events and listeners are the glue that holds our complex business logic together. They allow us to decouple our code, …
Manticore Speaks MySQL - So I Made It a Laravel Database Driver Instead of a Scout Engine
The problem I've been working with Manticore Search for about two years at EricaPRO , building the search layer for two financial data platforms. For …
Why Laravel's Service Container Feels Like Magic: Dependency Injection Explained
1. Hook & Problem Statement You’ve been there. You're building a Laravel application, and everything is going smoothly. You type Route::get('/orde…