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Practical notes on PHP and Laravel, Go, databases, queues, caching, microservices and DevOps — from real experience running production systems.
A deep dive into MySQL's built-in Full-Text Search: index types, ngram configuration for Cyrillic, SQL examples, relevance scoring, and an honest comparison with Elasticsearch for backend developers.
A comprehensive guide to profiling Go services in production using pprof and runtime/trace: CPU, memory, goroutine leaks, flame graphs, and real optimization cases for high-load systems.
A complete guide to managing microservice configuration in Kubernetes: from ConfigMaps to hot reloading without pod restarts and building a centralized Config Server in Go.
A complete guide to designing a production-ready real-time notification system on Laravel with Redis, queues, and WebSocket. Covers architecture, scaling, and reliability.
A complete guide to implementing autocomplete with Elasticsearch Suggesters: Completion, Context, search-as-you-type, fuzzy suggestions, Redis caching, and production analytics.
How to properly organize incoming data validation in a Go REST API: separation of concerns, the DTO pattern, custom validators, RFC 7807, and table-driven tests.