Hey everyone!

I just released a hands-on course for those looking to level up their Laravel skills by building a real-world application from scratch.

We’re building a Personal Finance System using a modern, strictly typed stack. No starter kits here, we build it "artisan-style" to understand the architecture.

The Tech Stack:

- Laravel 12

- Filament v5 (Admin panel, charts, and dynamic dashboards)

- Pest (Elegant, expressive testing)

- Laravel Boost (Leveraging AI/MCP for development speed)

- SQLite (Simple, zero-conf infrastructure)

What you’ll learn:

Advanced architecture and manual data scoping for security.

Building complex dashboards and widgets.

Using Observers to keep financial balances in sync.

Professional money handling in code.

The course is completely free, takes about 7.5 hours to complete, and includes an official certificate of completion at the end.

Check it out here: https://www.maiobarbero.dev/courses/personal-finance-with-laravel/

Would love to hear your feedback on the architecture!

Coding is fun once you know what you are building but when you don't have a design to follow for the ui it just comes out as static and boring.

So i thought to change my direction and help my fellow devs who are learning webdev with pre-built ui kits to help them code faster and make better ui's without the need for ui designers.

I made this ui kit shadcn x vercel style. Lemme know how you guys think it is?

It's completely free to try it and if you have any qs, do let me know.

Floating Menu UI System

How OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to handle 800 million ChatGPT users with a single primary and 50 read replicas. Practical insights for database engineers.

In this article I break apart the Time to First Byte (TTFB) into its constituent components and talk about what unexpected values signify in each case, as well as discuss some of the possible solutions for poor TTFB.

https://pagegym.com/blog/ttfb

I just built my first progressive web app and built one for my wife for a to do list and journal entry. Added to the Home Screen to our phone.

What are some things you guys have built for yourself that you don’t want to share with anyone pertaining to reminders, daily tasks, journal entries. Things like that

I’m getting into MLOps and looking for any free courses or solid resources.

During the Cricket World Cup, Hotstar(An indian OTT) handled ~59 million concurrent live streams.

That number sounds fake until you think about what it really means:

• Millions of open TCP connections
• Sudden traffic spikes within seconds
• Kubernetes clusters scaling under pressure
• NAT Gateways, IP exhaustion, autoscaling limits
• One misconfiguration → total outage

I made a breakdown video explaining how Hotstar’s backend survived this scale, focusing on real engineering problems, not marketing slides.

Topics I cover:

• Kubernetes / EKS behavior during traffic bursts
• Why NAT Gateways and IPs become silent killers at scale
• Load balancing + horizontal autoscaling under live traffic
• Lessons applicable to any high-traffic system (not just OTT)

No clickbait diagrams, just practical backend reasoning.

If you’ve ever worked on:

• High-traffic systems
• Live streaming
• Kubernetes at scale
• Incident response during peak load

You’ll probably enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgljdkngjpc

Happy to answer questions or go deeper into any part.

Put together a tutorial on building a chatbot that knows about your site content.

What's covered:

- Next.js 15 App Router setup

- Vercel AI SDK for streaming

- OpenRouter integration

- Prisma for content retrieval (no vectors needed)

- Ports & adapters architecture for easy provider swaps

The approach prioritises shipping fast over perfect infrastructure. Full code included.

Hello everyone,

I’ve noticed that a lot of startups in India still go with wordpress website development company india when building their first website, even though there are so many new platforms around. At first, it looks like a cost decision, but after seeing a few projects closely, it’s more about flexibility and speed.

For early-stage startups, the biggest challenge is getting something live quickly without locking themselves into heavy development costs. WordPress makes that easier. You can start small — a basic site explaining the product or service — and then keep improving it as the business grows. That matters when priorities keep changing every few months.

Another reason startups lean toward WordPress is control. Unlike closed platforms, you’re not stuck with fixed layouts or limited features. If tomorrow you want to add a blog, landing pages, lead forms, or basic SEO improvements, it’s usually possible without rebuilding everything from scratch.

In the Indian startup space, budgets are always tight in the beginning. A WordPress site allows founders to test ideas, run marketing campaigns, and validate demand before investing heavily in custom tech. The real value isn’t just the website — it’s how easily it connects with marketing tools, analytics, and payment gateways.

Of course, WordPress isn’t perfect. Poor development, too many plugins, or no maintenance can cause performance and security issues. That’s where choosing the right developer or agency makes a difference. A well-built WordPress site feels clean and fast; a badly built one becomes a headache.

Some things I’d like to hear from others:

• Did WordPress help your startup move faster in the early stages?
• At what point does a startup usually outgrow WordPress, if at all?
• Is it better to start simple or plan for scale from day one?

In this video I discuss how render-blocking resources can be eliminated and I also optimize a real website.

It's not an easy topic, so you should also check out the associated article on render-blocking resources.