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taught
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leadership,
practised.
I'm Steven — CTO at Digitonic, a PHP engineer since 2010 and a keen golfer with a terrible handicap. This is where I write it all down.
…and a few friends I can't name.
Latest from the journal
Scale Laravel Queue Workers to Zero and Back with KEDA
A worker blocked on Redis uses no CPU, so the HPA never scales it. Here is the KEDA ScaledObject that scales on queue depth instead — including scale-to-zero and the shutdown config that stops Kubernetes killing jobs.
PHP 8.6 Readonly Property Defaults: Cleaner DTOs and Interface Properties in Laravel
PHP 8.6 lifts the four-year ban on default values for readonly properties. Here's what that changes for DTOs, interface properties and Laravel action classes.
A Laravel Validation Rule That Scores Spam and Toxicity with Jev
Honeypots stop bots, not humans dropping promotional links. Here's a Laravel validation rule that sends the submission to Jev, reads the score and the confidence, and fails open when the API is unreachable.