#DevOps

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.

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.