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More from the trenches.
Older posts. Same hot takes.
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ShopifyShopify Storefront Web Components: headless commerce for the rest of us
Headless used to mean six engineers and a Hydrogen rebuild. Shopify Storefront Web Components let you drop products, collections, and cart into any HTML page with a script tag — no React, no build step, no DevOps tax.
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ArchitectureMastering event-driven architecture with Google Pub/Sub
Decouple your services or drown in latency. Topics, fan-out, push vs pull, dead-letter queues, idempotent consumers, and the Laravel integration I run on Google Cloud — a practical EDA blueprint from a senior engineer.
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DevOpsEffortless SaaS hosting: the Coolify and Docker deployment guide
Heroku DX, your own server, none of the cloud tax. How Coolify + Docker on a $5 VPS replaces vendor-lock managed platforms with a control plane you actually own — one-click databases, automatic SSL, and zero-downtime deploys.
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AIMCP and the future of tool-use: building context-aware agents
The Model Context Protocol kills the era of brittle one-off integrations. Tools, resources, prompts, and the three primitives that let one server talk to any MCP-aware client — with a working TypeScript example you can ship today.
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ArchitectureVibe coding and the architectural shift to agentic workflows
MCP, agentic loops, and intent-based engineering. How vibe coding becomes a real architecture pattern when AI stops being a chat sidebar and starts owning stateful loops against your tools. The practical Laravel + MCP stack I run today.
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AIWhy your RAG implementation is failing in production (and how to fix it)
Vector-only retrieval is the silent killer of production RAG. Hybrid search with BM25, reciprocal rank fusion, smarter chunking, re-rankers, and an evaluation harness — the production checklist that turns a flaky demo into a reliable system.
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ArchitectureFrom monolith to micro-services: a senior dev's guide to pragmatic scaling
Skip the big-bang rewrite. The strangler fig pattern, anti-corruption layers, Docker-first migration, and GKE/Coolify operations — how I peel services off a Laravel monolith one endpoint at a time without breaking revenue.
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LaravelLaravel multi-tenancy: how I built a scalable SaaS architecture
Single DB vs multi-DB, global scopes that stop data leaks, stancl/tenancy in production, isolated storage, automated migrations, and the Docker + Google Cloud setup I run for high-trust SaaS clients.
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ArchitectureAI integration vs traditional development: which is better for your business in 2026?
Speed, control, or a hybrid path? When AI-assisted development pays off, when traditional engineering is non-negotiable, and the hybrid workflow I recommend most often to founders and tech leads.
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