Engineering,
taught
&
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
Cache Composer and NPM in GitHub Actions to Speed Up Laravel CI
Cache Composer's download directory and the npm cache in GitHub Actions, keyed on your lockfiles, so composer install and the asset build finish in seconds.
Run Independent Work in Parallel with Laravel's Concurrency Facade
Turn six sequential dashboard queries into one parallel batch. A practical look at Laravel's Concurrency facade — run(), defer(), the three drivers, and when a queue is still the right call.
Deploy Laravel to a VPS with Kamal 2: A Complete Guide
Kubernetes is overkill and click-ops doesn't scale. Kamal 2 deploys a containerised Laravel app to a plain VPS over SSH, with zero-downtime cutover and automatic SSL from a single config file.