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A Local Development Toolbox with Docker Compose: Databases, Cloud Emulators and Mocks

A Local Development Toolbox with Docker Compose: Databases, Cloud Emulators and Mocks

How to build a reproducible local environment with Docker Compose for databases, MinIO, AWS/Azure/GCP emulators and WireMock, and what trade-offs it has.

AI Skills for Log Analysis: How I Structured a Reproducible Diagnosis

AI Skills for Log Analysis: How I Structured a Reproducible Diagnosis

How I designed a set of skills and agents for AI assistants that detect a log's technology, ask for missing context and deliver a standardized diagnosis. Design, installation and limits.

Laravel with Docker Compose: Five Infrastructure Mistakes Worth Avoiding

Laravel with Docker Compose: Five Infrastructure Mistakes Worth Avoiding

Service names, Postgres healthchecks, a scheduler without a cache table, queues and migrations on deploy: the mistakes that show up when taking Laravel to Docker Compose and how to avoid them.

When the Patch Skips Your Version: What PHP2Shell Cost Governments, and What EOL Adds on Top

When the Patch Skips Your Version: What PHP2Shell Cost Governments, and What EOL Adds on Top

You can't predict the next critical CVE, but you can predict your PHP version's end-of-life date. What PHP2Shell cost in one day, and why running EOL turns a bad day into a forced migration.

Microservices Architecture

Microservices Architecture

When should a feature become its own microservice? Follow a growing online shop through six guidelines for deciding, the advantages of the architecture, and the complexity it brings.

Bad Habits in Web Development We Should Avoid

Bad Habits in Web Development We Should Avoid

Ignoring mobile, inconsistent styles, hardcoded URLs, missing alt text and div soup: five common habits that hurt quality, accessibility and maintainability, and how to fix each one.

Exposing Development Environments with Cloudflare Tunnel and WARP Without Opening Ports

Exposing Development Environments with Cloudflare Tunnel and WARP Without Opening Ports

How to publish dev apps with TLS and custom domains without exposing the server: Cloudflare Tunnel, Traefik, Portainer, Laravel behind a proxy and private access with WARP. With trade-offs.

Modular Monolith or Microservices: A Framework for Deciding Without Dogma

Modular Monolith or Microservices: A Framework for Deciding Without Dogma

When microservices are justified and when a modular monolith gives you 80% of the benefit at 20% of the cost. With a decision framework and a Laravel example.

Data Sovereignty and Open Architecture in Government Platforms: Design Principles

Data Sovereignty and Open Architecture in Government Platforms: Design Principles

What it means to design state systems that are technology-neutral, interoperable and that preserve control of data. Principles, trade-offs and questions for evaluating any solution.