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Deep dives into software architecture audits, systems migration, high-throughput scaling, and backend engineering leadership.

/ GitLab CI , DevOps , PHP , Pest , PHPStan

Fast, boring CI for a Laravel monolith

What actually makes a GitLab CI pipeline for a large PHP codebase quick and trustworthy: lockfile-keyed caches, cheap checks first, sharded Pest runs and migrations that don't break running code.

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/ Architecture , Microservices , Elixir , USSD , Strangler Fig

Breaking up a monolith one route at a time

Lessons from moving an SMS, USSD and web learning platform off a legacy monolith: why USSD traffic strains a request-per-worker stack, routing traffic out gradually, Elixir session processes, and keeping data consistent between services.

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