Rebuilding a Platform Under Itself: Monolith to Microservices Without Stopping the Business
Notes from a live V2→V3 re-platforming, moving a tightly-coupled Node/Python duolith to Laravel microservices while the old system keeps serving customers.
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Building a Single Pane of Glass for a 20-Server Fleet
Why I built our operations console instead of buying one, and the design rules that keep it trustworthy: read-only collectors, flap-resistant alerting, and a dead-man’s switch.
Multi-Region Failover on a Small-Company Budget
How we gave a Laravel API a warm standby on another continent with a Cloudflare Load Balancer, a read replica, and a short list of deliberate rules. It is not active-active, and that’s the point.
Edge of Horizon: Taming Queue Chaos
A talk at Laravel Mauritius about effectively managing and monitoring queue jobs in Laravel applications using Laravel Horizon.
Using State Machines
How state machines can save you from workflow hell, with practical tips and library recommendations for PHP and JavaScript.