Practical articles on Laravel, PHP, and web development from Glen Lockhart at Bright Web Development.
We took over a food safety compliance SaaS that was timing out on reports, leaking memory on imports, and had serious security gaps. Here's what we fixed, and how Paul marked the launch.
Consultants on a health and safety compliance platform were hitting intermittent PDF failures in the field. The root cause was PHP memory configuration. Here's how we found it and fixed it.
Most production PHP incidents are preventable. These are the five checks I run on every platform I take over, and what I typically find.
Manual deployments carry more risk than most teams realise. Here's what we replaced them with, and why automated deployment is one of the highest-value infrastructure improvements you can make.
A PHP platform was generating errors every day for months. Nobody knew because the logs were either too noisy to read or not configured at all. Here's what we found and fixed.
WordPress and Laravel aren't competitors. They solve different problems. Here's a practical framework for knowing which to choose.
