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Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 11 Set up Redis for Laravel queues and cache with Docker, PHPRedis, a real queued job, TTL cache results, worker commands and a Mailtrap queue option. This written tutorial follows the act...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 10Run Laravel PHP-FPM and Nginx in one optional Docker container with Supervisor, process status checks, for...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 9Add Node.js 22 and npm to Laravel Docker, install locked frontend packages, compile Vite assets and view a ...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 8Install Composer 2 in the Laravel PHP container, build dependencies from composer.lock and understand Docke...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 7Connect Laravel to MongoDB using separate username and password settings, and install the native PHP driver...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 6Connect Laravel 12 to PostgreSQL 17 using Docker Compose, PDO pgsql, health checks, persistent storage, mig...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 5Learn Laravel queue jobs step by step with a practical email example. Queue a message in MySQL, process it ...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 4Run Laravel scheduled tasks in Docker and watch a real five-second example on a Blade page. This lesson cre...
Lesson 4 correction: use the fixed Nginx configurationUpdate, 16 October 2026: the original lesson-3 tag below is preserved as its historica...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 2In Lesson 1, Laravel ran in a single PHP 8.2 + Apache container. Lesson 2 adds a separate MySQL 8.0 databas...
Laravel Docker Lessons · Lesson 1This lesson documents the Docker setup I created for the docker-laravel application: Laravel 12 running ins...
How do you recognize race conditions in asynchronous microservices?Race conditions in distributed Node.js microservices occur when multiple ...
What causes the N+1 query problem in modern ORMs?The N+1 query problem occurs when an Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) executes one initial qu...
Distributed systems are bound by the realities of finite resources: CPU cycles, memory allocations, thread pools, and database connection li...
Why Does At-Least-Once Delivery Cause Duplicate Processing in Laravel?Distributed message brokers such as Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, and Redis pr...
Scalable Notification Platform Proposed reference architecture • Private engineering design • Version 1.0 Open architecture canvas 01 — Syst...
Nucleus and this portfolio provide a concrete Laravel and React architecture to examine. Nucleus owns the database, content editing, authent...
A security checklist becomes useful when it explains which request crosses a trust boundary and how to verify the result. A Laravel API and ...
A useful AI agent needs more than a prompt that says “finish the task.” It needs access to the right evidence, a small set of tools, a way t...
Nucleus, the backend behind this portfolio, is a useful real example for comparing deployment boundaries. It contains Blog, Course, Project,...
An invoice generator needs a precise answer to a small question: which transactions belong to this invoice? In Nucleus, the answer is a cale...
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