Engineering topics
Guides and Q&A grouped by subject. Each topic collects the articles and solved problems on that area in one place.
Laravel
Laravel guides on real production problems: Sanctum authentication for SPAs and mobile apps, roles and permissions, Redis caching and real-time notifications.
PostgreSQL & Redis
PostgreSQL and Redis in production: reading EXPLAIN ANALYZE, partitioning, row-level security, job queues with SKIP LOCKED, and cache-aside and write-through caching.
DevOps & CI/CD
CI/CD pipelines that hold up in production: GitHub Actions caching and deployments, image scanning, zero-downtime database migrations and alert-to-ticket automation.
Kubernetes, Docker & Cloud
Running services on Kubernetes and AWS: migrating from Docker Compose, canary releases, fast local dev loops with Skaffold, and Lambda networking in a VPC.
Angular, React & TypeScript
Frontend engineering with Angular, React and TypeScript: change detection and signals, dynamic components, useEffect race conditions, context performance and type-safe refactors.
Microservices & API Architecture
Backend architecture in practice: the strangler fig pattern, RabbitMQ events, retries and circuit breakers, gRPC keepalives, GraphQL N+1 and Python concurrency pitfalls.
Application Security
Practical application security: API rate limiting, secrets management with Vault, container image scanning, row-level security, and authentication and authorization in Laravel.