Posts tagged "PHP"
Essays, field notes, and engineering write-ups by Al Amin Ahamed covering PHP — 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 PHP work.
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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.
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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.
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Stop Using Fixed-Size Chunks for Technical Documentation
Why naive fixed-size chunking breaks on code-heavy documentation, and the heading-aware approach with paragraph fallback and overlap that replaced it in this portfolio's RAG pipeline.
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Voyage AI vs OpenAI Embeddings for Technical RAG in PHP
Why I switched from OpenAI text-embedding-3-small to Voyage AI voyage-code-3 for this portfolio's RAG layer — model comparison, the input_type asymmetry Voyage requires, measured retrieval improvement, and the migration path that keeps search live throughout.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Building Production Gutenberg Blocks in 2025
A practical guide to building Gutenberg blocks with the v3 API — block.json, dynamic blocks, deprecations, and the testing strategies that actually work.
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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.
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WordPress Plugin Security: Lessons from Two Disclosures
The exact security checklist I run every plugin through before release — capability checks, escaping, nonces, and the disclosed bugs that taught me each lesson.
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Laravel Queues at Scale: Lessons from 10 Million Jobs
Patterns and pitfalls I've learned running Laravel queues in production — from connection pooling and job chunking to dead-letter handling and zero-downtime deployments.