Software Engineering Blog, page 8
Notes on software engineering from the Atyantik practice.
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Ishan Chavda
The AI content workflow WordPress can run without plugins: a REST route, WP-Cron and a person who publishes
Build an AI content workflow WordPress runs with no plugins: a REST route, a WP-Cron worker, pending drafts and only a person with publish_posts to publish.
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Margi Varmora
Laravel queues at scale: the timer order and worker sum that stop double runs
Laravel queues at scale: keep every timeout under retry_after, size workers from job time, run Horizon on Redis, and make each job safe to run twice.
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Ronak Makwana
What happens when you hit a URL: from typing it and pressing enter to a page on screen
What happens when you hit a URL and press enter: each step from DNS to render, timed with curl on five real sites, plus the parts of a URL and its limits.
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Ajay Patel
Custom software vs off-the-shelf software: when tailor-made software development pays off
Custom software vs off-the-shelf software, slice by slice: buy the common parts, build the one that sets you apart, and time it with break-even math.
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Maulik Macwan
What is a CPU cache, and why is it faster than RAM?
What is a CPU cache, and why is it faster than RAM? The SRAM vs DRAM cell, refresh timing, on-die distance, and a benchmark that plots each cache level.
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Ajay Patel
Managing project timelines without compromising quality: buffers, limits and the scope trade
Size the buffer from past releases, cap work in progress, trade scope, not tests: managing project timelines through common project delivery challenges.
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Ajay Patel
Cross-functional team communication on a software product team, decided pair by pair
Cross-functional team communication for software product teams: count the paths, choose live talk or a written interface per role pair, and log decisions.
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Ronak Makwana
Spatie activity log best practices for audit at scale
Spatie activity log best practices for Laravel: log domain events not model churn, index real queries, retain by compliance class, keep PII out of the diff.
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Ronak Makwana
Laravel DigitalOcean deployment with Laravel Forge
Laravel DigitalOcean deployment with Laravel Forge, as a production runbook: atomic deploys, queue workers, migration safety, sizing math, and hardening.
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Maulik Macwan
WordPress serialization and JSON: why core still stores PHP serialize() strings
WordPress serialization and JSON compared: why core keeps PHP serialize(), how to read it into an array, and when JSON is the safer store.
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Ishan Chavda
Site speed optimization 2026: Core Web Vitals guide
Site speed optimization 2026 as a field guide: read Core Web Vitals at p75, split LCP and INP into subparts, fix the one that owns the time, re-measure.
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Maulik Macwan
WordPress Lifecycle Hooks: index.php to Rendered Page
WordPress lifecycle hooks, source-traced from index.php to shutdown: what state each hook exposes, and why hooking too early or too late breaks.
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