Practical insights and guides on PHP/Symfony, React/Next.js, legacy modernization, and software architecture, drawn from 18+ years of building web applications for European businesses.
A practical developer onboarding plan for SaaS engineering teams: what the first week, first month and first quarter should look like, what to put in the onboarding guide, and how to teach code archaeology instead of assuming it.
Read moreA practical guide for CTOs and IT leads in German mid-sized companies: when to modernize and when to rebuild, the five legacy scenarios we see most often, a step-by-step process built around the strangler fig pattern, and what realistic budgets and timelines look like.
Read moreRealistic price ranges for a PHP code audit on the German market, what drives the number up or down, what the report has to contain to justify the spend, and the questionnaire we send before every engagement.
Read moreBun can run Next.js in production now, and the startup and install numbers are real. Whether that matters for your SaaS depends on where the time goes. Bun vs Node.js for Next.js: real workloads, compatibility gaps, deployment changes, and migration cost.
Read moreThe React 19 compiler automates the memoization you used to hand-write with useMemo and useCallback. Here is what it really changes, where it gives up, how to turn it on in Next.js and Vite, and how to roll it out on a large codebase without a surprise.
Read morePrompt engineering, RAG, and fine-tuning solve different problems. A practical framework for choosing between them, with cost comparisons and the build vs managed service question for each.
Read moreEstimates fail for predictable reasons: unknown unknowns, the planning fallacy, and a habit of confusing effort with duration. Here are the techniques we use to estimate client projects with honest uncertainty ranges, and the contract shapes that keep a bad estimate from sinking the relationship.
Read moreSymfony ships three caching layers that most teams treat as one. Here is a mental model for HttpCache, the Cache contracts, and the Doctrine result cache, plus a Redis setup that survives a multi-tenant dashboard without stampedes or stale data.
Read moreFitness functions turn architecture agreements into CI checks that fail the build when a boundary breaks. Five concrete examples for Symfony and Next.js teams, with code.
Read moreThe complete production setup for Coolify v4 on Hetzner Cloud: server sizing, locking down the dashboard, TLS, S3 backups to Object Storage, Grafana Cloud monitoring, GitHub auto deploys, and the config differences between Symfony and Next.js apps.
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