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Notes from the trenches

Field notes on Laravel, PostgreSQL, Rust and the unglamorous work of keeping production healthy. RSS

Queues fail silently until they fail loudly. Design principles for job pipelines that degrade gracefully under ten times their normal load.

Shared schema with a tenant_id, schema-per-tenant, or separate databases? A decision framework based on where the real costs actually appear.

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