Notes from the field

Practical articles on Laravel, PHP, and web development from Glen Lockhart at Bright Web Development.

5 things to check before your PHP platform goes down in production

Most production PHP incidents are preventable. These are the five checks I run on every platform I take over, and what I typically find.

Why I use automated deployments (and why you should too)

Manual deployments carry more risk than most teams realise. Here's what I replaced them with, and why automated deployment is one of the highest-value infrastructure improvements you can make.