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Why We Moved to Event-Driven Microservices (and What It Cost Us)
In 2023 we migrated our core platform from a 340,000-line PHP monolith to event-driven microservices on AWS. It took 9 months, cost us two production incidents, and taught us more about distributed systems than five years of reading could. Here's the honest story — the numbers, the mistakes, and what we'd do differently.
Why We Chose PHP 8 for Our SaaS (and Why You Shouldn't Dismiss It)
There's a persistent belief in tech circles that PHP is a legacy language — something you inherit and eventually escape. It's wrong. PHP 8.3 is one of the fastest, most ergonomic backend languages available today. Here's why we chose it for our SaaS, with numbers.
How We Cut Deployment Time from 45 Minutes to 4
Our deployments used to take 45 minutes end-to-end, required a full team on standby, and blocked everyone else from merging. We got them down to 4 minutes with six specific changes — none of which involved rewriting our stack.