Production access sat with one person, and that person took a holiday
The only person with production database access went on holiday and diagnosis stopped. The need came down to four sentences; each became a design decision.
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Don't pick a partial index for speed
Four index strategies on a 10M-row Postgres queue table: the winner didn't win for the reason I gave, and one setting turned it into a 1,635x loss.
Git in Production: A Senior Engineer's Practical Guide
From workflow selection to bug hunting with bisect, rebase discipline, worktrees, and signed commits — things I noticed after years of using Git.
Did Someone Say GitHub Actions?
An introduction to CI/CD with GitHub Actions: how to set up workflows and automate your deployment process.
Getting Started with Big Data Using Elasticsearch and Kibana
An introduction to Elasticsearch and Kibana: the fundamentals of full-text search, data analysis, and visualization at scale.
RabbitMQ with PHP
Using RabbitMQ with PHP: creating a message queue, publishing messages, and consuming them.