#Architecture

Aug 13, 2026 6 min read

Laravel & Architecture

Why SQLite is Often the Best Database for Modern Creator Platforms

The case for SQLite is not that it scales further than you think. It is that the operational cost of the alternative is far higher than most small products can justify — and that cost is paid every month, forever.

#Database #Laravel #SQLite

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Jul 28, 2026 8 min read

Indie Engineering

The Solo Engineer's Playbook: Shipping Production Software

Working alone changes which engineering practices pay for themselves. The constraint is not skill or time — it is that you are the only person who will ever be paged, and everything follows from that.

#Architecture #DevOps #Indie Engineering

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Jun 10, 2026 10 min read

Systems Engineering

Zero-Downtime Laravel Deploys: The Parts That Actually Bite

Atomic symlink swaps are the easy half. The failures that take a site down mid-deploy come from opcache, queue workers running old code, and migrations that lock a table.

#Laravel #DevOps #Architecture

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Apr 03, 2026 9 min read

Databases

Running SQLite in Production: What Actually Breaks

SQLite handles far more production traffic than its reputation suggests — but the failure modes are specific, and most of them trace back to two settings people never change.

#SQLite #Database #Architecture

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