Jun 26, 2026
I took a legacy SaaS from a 4.5 to an 8.0 without a rewriteA founder's older product still makes money and is scary to touch. Rewrite or keep patching? Neither. Here is how I modernized a 100K-user SaaS in place, from a 4.5 to an 8.0, while it never went dark.
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Feb 21, 2026
Case Study: Diagnosing and Fixing Performance Bottlenecks in a PHP SaaS Application (RunCloud + New Relic)The Problem: “The App Feels Slow” Is Not a Diagnosis Every SaaS founder eventually hears this sentence: “The application feels slow.” In our case, this was a PHP-based SaaS application hosted on a RunCloud-managed server.Pages loaded, features worked, but latency was noticeable — especially on DB-heavy screens. At this stage, many teams do one of […]
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Jun 22, 2025
Troubleshooting Laravel CI/CD Pipelines: A DevOps Case StudyDiscover how to fix missing compiled assets in Laravel CI/CD deployments. This real-world case study walks through debugging Bitbucket Pipelines, container isolation issues, and rsync configuration problems that caused assets to disappear between build and production.
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Jun 05, 2025
Replacing Dynamic HTML Blocks in PHP Without DOM LibrariesLearn how to replace repeating HTML structures in PHP without relying on heavy DOM libraries. This real-world case study shows how we tackled dynamic content manipulation using regex and templating, keeping the markup clean and the solution fast — ideal for SaaS apps, landing page engines, or custom platforms.
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