Welcome to My Tech Blog

SaaS Building

Building Lumio: my first personal SaaS from idea to launch

Lumio is a PDF reader that lets students highlight text and receive AI explanations in text or audio. This is the full story of how it went from a problem worth solving to a deployed product — the system design, the stack decisions, and what building your own thing feels like after years of building for others.

Kolawole

23 hours ago

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PHP Infrastructure

Why I moved SSE to Node.js (and off PHP-FPM forever)

PHP-FPM is excellent at what it was designed for. Long-lived streaming connections are not that. Here is what worker exhaustion taught me about architectural boundaries, and why SSE now lives exclusively on Node.js in every system I build.

Kolawole

2 days ago

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PHP Laravel

Laravel queue pub/sub with clue/redis-react: a practical guide

Polling-based Redis queues work until they do not. When you need true event-driven job dispatch without a persistent worker process watching a list, clue/redis-react gives you real pub/sub in PHP. Here is how the architecture works and how to implement it in a production Laravel app.

Kolawole

3 days ago

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Javascript

Decoding package.json in Node.js: Unveiling the Blueprint of Projects

Welcome back, fellow Node.js enthusiasts! In our previous exploration, we delved into the significance of npm and why it's a crucial companion in the Node.js ecosystem. Now, let's turn our attention to the cornerstone of npm — the package.json file.

Kolawole

2 years ago

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Javascript

Demystifying npm in Node.js: Unleashing the Power of Packages

In this section, we're diving into the realm of npm, a pivotal aspect of Node.js development. Let's unravel the mysteries of npm, exploring its dual role as the world's largest software library and a software package manager.

Kolawole

2 years ago

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Javascript

Demystifying libuv: The Powerhouse Behind Node.js Asynchrony

Today, we embark on an intriguing journey to unravel the mysteries of libuv, a crucial component that underpins the asynchronous and non-blocking magic within Node.js.

Kolawole

2 years ago

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