A Laravel application running on a single virtual server handles moderate traffic with zero complaints. Then a marketing push lands, concurrent users jump from twenty to five hundred, and response times crawl from sixty milliseconds to twenty seconds before the web server starts throwing 502 Bad Gateway errors.When traffic spikes, PHP-FPM w ...

By BrainSoft | 5 05 September 2026

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Choosing between REST and GraphQL for an internal API

Engineering teams rarely regret picking a boring technology until an edge case exposes its limits. When designing internal services, the friction usually appears as either a cascade of multiple round-trips over REST endpoints or an opaque GraphQL query that brings down a production database. Choosing between them should be a question of operational overhead, not personal ...

By BrainSoft | 5 05 September 2026

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How much testing is enough before you ship

"How much testing is enough" does not have a percentage-coverage answer, whatever a badge on your README claims. It has a risk answer: test the paths that would hurt the business if they broke, and use judgment for everything else. In practice this means automated tests around checkout, authentication, billing and anything touching money or ...

By BrainSoft | 5 04 September 2026

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