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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.