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#Architecture

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01August 21, 2026You Don't Need Microservices. You Need Boundaries.Microservices won't fix a monolith that lacks boundaries — they'll just move the coupling onto a network. Break a Laravel app into Billing, Catalog, Identity, and Reporting modules with owned data, public contracts, and Pest-enforced dependency rules, and only extract to a service when a measured problem demands it.
02June 23, 2026Laravel & PHP Guidelines for AI Code Assistants — A Practical Style GuideAI assistants generate Laravel code fast, but rarely in a consistent house style. This post distills a battle-tested set of Laravel & PHP conventions — typed properties, happy-path-last control flow, naming rules, and testing structure — into a guide you can drop straight into your AI tooling. Inspired by Spatie's well-known guidelines.
03June 3, 2026Backend-for-Frontend (BFF): The Missing Piece in Your Fullstack AppYour frontend is doing too much — orchestrating microservices, parsing messy payloads, and worst of all, holding auth tokens the browser can't keep safe. The Backend-for-Frontend pattern moves all of that to a server layer you control. Here's why it matters (especially after the September 2025 npm attack that hit packages with 2.6B weekly downloads) and how Next.js gives you one for free.
04April 28, 20267 API Architectures Every Developer Should Know in 2026Picking the wrong API style costs you in latency, bandwidth, and 3 AM debugging sessions. This post breaks down the seven API architectures powering modern apps — what they do, where they shine, and the trade-offs you need to know before you commit.
05April 27, 2026Why SpaceX Is Paying $60B for CursorOn April 21, 2026, SpaceX announced an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion later this year. This post unpacks the actual architecture that makes Cursor feel like a senior engineer — local indexing, Merkle-tree change detection, Tree-sitter AST chunking, Turbopuffer vector search, and the Composer agent model — then breaks down the three strategic reasons this deal is really about who owns the AI stack.
06April 9, 2026Claude Code Leaked: 512K Lines of AI Agent ArchitectureOn March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the full Claude Code source — 512,000 lines of TypeScript — inside an npm package. The resulting clean-room rewrite became the fastest-growing GitHub repo in history. Here's exactly what the architecture reveals, and what you can take from it as an engineer.
07April 5, 2026Netflix, Instagram, Twitter: Three Database ArchitecturesNetflix writes 3M records/sec. Instagram serves a billion users. Twitter handles 300K timeline reads/sec. Each picked a radically different database — not because one is better, but because their access patterns are fundamentally different. This post reverse-engineers all three architectures and gives you a mental framework for making these decisions yourself.
08August 29, 2025Hexagonal Architecture in Laravel: Code That Lasts Longer Than FrameworksLaravel makes it easy to ship fast, but that often leads to tight coupling between business logic and infrastructure. Hexagonal Architecture (Ports & Adapters) helps by separating your core domain from frameworks and vendors, making tests faster, integrations swappable, and long-term maintenance smoother. In this blog, we'll break down what Hexagonal means in Laravel terms, where it shines, where it's overkill, and how it compares with MVC and other approaches.

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