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Posts tagged "DevOps"

Essays, field notes, and engineering write-ups by Al Amin Ahamed covering DevOps — 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 DevOps work.

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Jun 18, 2025
· 8 min read

Caddy + Laravel: A 50-Line Production Config

The exact Caddyfile I run in production — automatic HTTPS, HTTP/3, security headers, rate limiting, asset caching, all in ~50 lines.

May 22, 2025
· 8 min read

Supervisor for Laravel: Queue Workers, Scheduler, Horizon

Production Supervisor configs for Laravel queue workers, schedule:work, and Horizon — with the gotchas around stopwaitsecs, max-time, and zero-downtime restarts.

Apr 30, 2025
· 8 min read

Cloudflare in Front of Laravel: Real IPs, Trusted Proxies, Locked-Down Origins

How to make Laravel see real visitor IPs through Cloudflare — TrustProxies config, origin firewall rules, geolocation headers, and the caching gotchas.

Nov 22, 2024
· 10 min read

Six Redis Patterns Every Laravel App Eventually Needs

Cache, sessions, queues, rate limiting, locks, pub/sub — the Redis patterns I use in production Laravel apps, with the trade-offs and the failure modes.

Aug 15, 2024
· 6 min read

WP-CLI Tips That Actually Save Time

Practical WP-CLI commands and custom commands I use daily to speed up WordPress development, deployments, and debugging.

Feb 20, 2024
· 11 min read

Deploying Laravel on a VPS: Caddy, Supervisor, and Zero-Downtime Releases

The exact setup I use to deploy Laravel on a raw Ubuntu VPS — Caddy for automatic TLS, Supervisor for queue workers, and an atomic symlink deploy script.

Jul 12, 2023
· 8 min read

Scaling WordPress: Redis Object Cache, Query Optimization, and Page Caching

A systematic guide to making WordPress fast — from Redis object caching and WP_Query optimization to FastCGI page cache and CDN asset delivery.