That Time a WooCommerce Race Condition Deleted Live Orders
I got a call from a client running a high-traffic shop. The panic in his voice was obvious. A customer had just emailed him, irate….
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GrumPHP: A Pragmatic Local Continuous Integration Workflow
Had a new dev join the team a while back. Sharp guy, good attitude. But his first few commits were… inconsistent. Braces all over the…
The Right Way to Handle WordPress Password Hashing
I got a call from a client with a membership site that’s been around since the dawn of time. They wanted to upgrade their security,…
Stop Fearing Serverless: Your Big PHP Site Can Handle It
I was on a call last week with a client running a pretty big WooCommerce store. They’re getting ready for a huge Black Friday sale…
Your WooCommerce Admin is Slow? Here’s the Likely Culprit.
I got a call about a high-traffic WooCommerce shop—maybe 30,000 products—and their admin dashboard was timing out. Total mess. The site owner couldn’t even get…
Stop Writing Messy Laravel Controllers with Static Factory Methods
I was looking at a controller for a client’s project the other day, and it was a mess. They have a `Subscription` model, and you…
Laravel Vapor Logs: Getting Papertrail to Actually Work
I had a client running a pretty slick setup on Laravel Vapor. But they had this ghost in the machine—an error that would pop up…
Minor Update, Major Fix: Why Woo 10.3.4 Matters
I got a call last week from a client in a panic. Their international orders were failing at checkout, but only when customers tried to…
How to Reliably Test Stripe Checkout with Laravel Dusk
A client came to us a while back with a Laravel subscription app that was bleeding money. Users would go through the Stripe checkout, their…
Why Serverless is the Best WooCommerce Hosting Solution
I got a call from a client in a full-blown panic. They’d just launched a flash sale—one they’d spent a month promoting—and their site went…