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Posts tagged "Architecture"

Essays, field notes, and engineering write-ups by Al Amin Ahamed covering Architecture — practical patterns, gotchas from production code, and lessons learned shipping real systems. Topics include architecture decisions, performance tuning, debugging stories, and integration notes you can apply directly to your own Architecture work.

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May 25, 2026
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Prompt Versioning in Production: Managing LLM Prompts Like Code

How EasyCommerce manages LLM prompts across Claude, OpenAI, and DeepSeek with a versioned registry, structured evals in CI, and a rollback path that does not require a deployment.

May 25, 2026
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Building a Claude Code MCP Server in Python: Lessons from codebase-research-agent

How codebase-research-agent exposes a tool-using AI agent as a Claude Code MCP server — JSON-RPC over Streamable HTTP, tool registration, streaming SSE, and the four things that broke in production before it worked reliably.

May 14, 2026
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Scaling a Laravel MCP Tool Registry to 46 Tools

The May 12 post covered the MCP server architecture. This one goes inside the tool registry: class-per-tool structure, Sanctum ability scoping, JSON Schema validation before dispatch, tag-based auto-discovery, and the three things that broke when the registry hit 46 tools.

May 14, 2026
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A Claude Tool-Calling Loop in Laravel: From First Request to Final Answer

The exact pattern for registering tools, dispatching multi-turn Claude conversations, and processing tool results in a Laravel service — including the three production failure modes the happy path does not cover.

May 14, 2026
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Embedding LLMs in a WordPress Plugin: EasyCommerce's Async Architecture

How EasyCommerce wires LLM calls — product description generation, fraud detection, and inventory forecasting — into a WordPress plugin using async dispatch and a provider abstraction that survives outages and scales across catalogues.

May 12, 2026
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MCP Servers for Laravel: A Production Pattern

How I built the MCP server that powers AI access to this portfolio — JSON-RPC over Streamable HTTP, Sanctum bearer auth, an ability-scoped tool registry, and the gotchas worth knowing before you ship.

Mar 10, 2026
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A Multi-Provider AI Driver Pattern for Laravel

A clean driver pattern for switching between Claude, OpenAI, Groq, and Ollama in a Laravel app — with failover, testing, and a single calling interface.

Nov 18, 2025
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Building Custom Commission Logic in Dokan Multi-Vendor

How Dokan's commission system actually works, the filters you need, per-category and tiered commission patterns, and what to never do.

Aug 12, 2025
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Tailwind v4 Migration: From v3 Config to CSS-First Tokens

A practical guide to migrating a real Laravel app from Tailwind v3 to v4 — what breaks, the new @theme syntax, plugin migration, and the 5× build speedup.

Jul 28, 2025
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React 19 in Production: useTransition, useOptimistic, and the End of forwardRef

How I use the new React 19 hooks in this portfolio's admin — useTransition for non-blocking input, useOptimistic for instant UI, and refs as props.

Apr 8, 2025
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A Code Review Playbook That Catches Real Bugs

The three-pass review structure I've refined over a decade — when to push back, how to write comments, and what makes reviews valuable instead of performative.

Oct 5, 2023
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TypeScript for PHP Developers

A practical transition guide for PHP developers picking up TypeScript — mapping familiar PHP concepts to their TypeScript equivalents, from null safety to generics.