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#production
12 articles: Note, Journal, System.
- 4 sections
Changing Schema in Production With Zero Downtime
Running migrations without causing downtime in production: backward-compatible steps, multi-phase column changes, and avoiding table locks
- 6 sections
Before You Reach for Redis: The Right Cache Strategy
The questions to ask before adding a cache, why cache invalidation is hard, and the choice between TTL and consistency
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- 6 sections
Circuit Breakers for External Service Integrations
Connecting a critical system to external APIs: using timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers to stop one service's collapse from taking the whole system down.
- 4 sections
Can You Ship Vibe-Coded Software to Production?
Vibe coding lowers the cost of a first version, not the cost of being wrong. That bill arrives in production, not at build time — and it depends on whose hands shipped it.
- 10 sections
Race Conditions and Gaps in Sequential Numbering: JIT Reservation
Generating legally sequential, gap-free numbers with parallel workers: the JIT reservation pattern that solves race conditions and gaps together
- 9 sections
Scale Breaking Points in Data-Intensive Systems
As data load grows, where does boring architecture break? Working set, read replicas, partitioning, write load and a separate data layer — the breaking points in order, and what each one costs
- 5 sections
Namespace Isolation for a Shared Redis
The pattern I use to avoid key collisions and accidental deletes when a single Redis instance is shared across several projects
- 6 sections
A PostgreSQL Backup Strategy with pgBackRest
pg_dump alone is not a backup. A PITR-capable, compressed, verifiable backup architecture with pgBackRest.
- 6 sections
Why Do Laravel Queues Slow Down in Production?
Laravel queue workers are flawless locally and slow in production. The five most common reasons developers overlook.
- 6 sections
Nginx + PHP-FPM Pool Separation
The concrete benefits of defining a separate pool per application instead of a single PHP-FPM pool when running multiple PHP apps on one VPS
- 13 sections
Laravel Production Stack
A production-grade Laravel setup with Nginx + PHP-FPM + Redis + PostgreSQL + Supervisor + Horizon. Each piece's job and what you lose if you drop it
- 6 sections
Multiple DB Users with pgBouncer auth_query
A practical setup for dynamic user authentication via `auth_query` instead of `userlist.txt` when running pgBouncer