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Backend systems, production failures, and learning in public.
Senior Software Engineer. 10+ years on APIs, backends, and infrastructure that have to keep working. PHP and Laravel are where I have spent the most time. They are not the whole job.
This site is a notebook of the work: production failures, how requests actually travel, and the operational details that keep a system honest. Learning notes are labelled that way.
# usually working with Laravel PHP MySQL AWS Redis Docker Linux # currently exploring Vector databases, AI systems, C++, Qt, and desktop application architecture.
// 01 notebook
Four notes from the work.
19 articles · 9 problems solved · 10 TILs · still learning
// problem · http · laravel
HTTP 421 Misdirected Request caused by an incorrect Host header
A 421 that looked like Nginx until the outbound Host header showed up.
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// article · redis · laravel
How I think about Redis caching in Laravel applications
Faster is easy. Wrong and fast is the expensive version.
2 min read →
// article · srs · streaming
Running SRS as a media server without treating it like magic
Streaming Infrastructure · #01
6 min read →
// essay · architecture · laravel
The framework is usually not the hard part
After enough years, Laravel is not the thing I am wrestling with. The system around it is.
2 min read →