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Notes on building web applications: Next.js, Laravel, databases, and the automation around them.

Sep 10, 2026

7 min read

Laravel Queue Best Practices for Reliable Background Jobs

Laravel queue best practices for production: retries, backoff, timeouts, idempotency, and failed job handling that keeps background jobs reliable.

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Sep 10, 2026

6 min read

Fix Eloquent N+1 in Laravel: Query Problems at Scale

Eloquent N+1 problems quietly destroy Laravel performance. Learn to detect, fix, and prevent them with eager loading, chunking, and query auditing in production.

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