Developer Case Studies by Ankush Sharma (Shandilya)

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 […]

Jun 22, 2025

Troubleshooting Laravel CI/CD Pipelines: A DevOps Case Study

Discover 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.

Jun 05, 2025

Replacing Dynamic HTML Blocks in PHP Without DOM Libraries

Learn 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.

Case Studies by Ankush Sharma (aka Ankush Shandilya)