Software Engineering Blog, page 8
Notes on software engineering from the Atyantik practice.
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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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Ishan Chavda
WordPress vs Laravel which to choose in 2026, scored on eight questions and measured throughput
WordPress vs Laravel which to choose: score your project on eight questions, read named benchmarks, and see when headless WordPress plus Laravel fits.
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Ayush Makwana
How do computers generate random numbers?
How do computers generate random numbers? Statistical PRNGs versus kernel CSPRNGs, the one question behind each call, and why a wrong pick predicts tokens.
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Ayush Makwana
Unix time epoch explained: epoch, Y2038, leap seconds
Unix time epoch explained by derivation: the one invariant, epoch and timezone conversion, the Y2038 overflow, leap seconds, monotonic vs wall clock.
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Kalpesh Patel
Web development innovations of 2026 that change how a team builds
Web development innovations of 2026, judged by Baseline and Interop 2026: what each removes from your build and the month you can drop the fallback.
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Aatman
How manual testing improves automation quality, from one session to the next regression check
Why manual testing still matters, and how manual testing improves automation quality: run a chartered session, then turn each finding into a stable check.
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Ajay Patel
What is custom software development, and what do you own when you build it?
Custom software development defined the way US national accounts measure it: the three routes from buy to build, what you own, and when not to build.
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Kalpesh Patel
PHP vs JavaScript web development: choose by how each one serves a request
PHP vs JavaScript web development, decided by execution model: a PHP-FPM worker per request or one Node.js event loop, with worked numbers per layer.
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