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How I Scaled a PHP Monolith to Handle 1,000 Concurrent Users Without Rewriting It
A practical walkthrough of the caching, query optimization, and horizontal scaling techniques I used to 10x throughput on a legacy CodeIgniter ERP — without a full rewrite.
CI/CD for a 36-Person Team: What Actually Worked (and What Didn't)
After rolling out CI/CD pipelines across a 36-developer team, here's what reduced deployment time by 40% — and the two approaches that made things worse before they got better.
Designing a Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture in Laravel: Lessons from Production
The three multi-tenancy strategies I evaluated for a B2B SaaS product, why we chose database-per-tenant over shared schema, and the operational trade-offs we live with today.
Onboarding Remote Engineers: The Documentation System That Cut Ramp-Up Time in Half
How we reduced new developer ramp-up time from 3 weeks to 10 days by building a structured onboarding documentation system — and the specific templates we use.
Building a Real-Time Facial Recognition Attendance System: The Hard Parts
The technical challenges nobody talks about when building a production facial recognition system — anti-spoofing, low-light accuracy, and GDPR-compliant biometric storage.