Articles

Notes on building and running software in production

Practical write-ups from real projects — Laravel and Node.js, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD and AWS — including what went wrong and how I fixed it.

Docker and Laravel icons with the title Running a Laravel queue worker in Docker Compose

Laravel Docker

Running a Laravel queue worker in Docker Compose without migration races

Put your queue worker in its own container, make it wait for a healthy database, stop it from re-running migrations, and restart it cleanly on every deploy.

07 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

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SEO Laravel

Technical SEO for a Laravel and Livewire portfolio: what I actually implemented

A practical checklist from building this site: per-page meta, canonical URLs, Open Graph, JSON-LD, a dynamic sitemap and Search Console — with the code and the things I deliberately skipped.

06 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

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CI/CD GitHub Actions

Laravel CI/CD with GitHub Actions and a self-hosted runner on EC2

Run tests on GitHub, then deploy from a runner that lives on the server itself — no SSH keys in secrets, no inbound deploy port, and a deploy that never gets cancelled halfway.

05 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

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Laravel Docker

Hosting a Laravel app on one AWS EC2 instance with Docker, Caddy and Cloudflare

The exact setup behind this portfolio: Docker Compose on a single EC2 instance, Caddy for HTTPS, Cloudflare in front, and a security group that only lets Cloudflare in.

03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read