Mateus Guimarães

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Optimizing PHP applications for performance

Published at May 05, 2024

10 minutes

Php Optimization Opcache Php-Fpm

A quick guide on how to set up OPCache and fine-tune PHP-FPM.

Full-stack development is a superpower

Published at Aug 07, 2022

8 minutes

Engineering Software Development Culture

Being a full-stack developer gives you superpowers.

Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/sec

Published at Jul 25, 2022

10 minutes

Laravel Scaling Architecture

How I scaled a Laravel 7 monolith to handle more than 100 million jobs and process peaks of 30,000 requests/minute in a rather cheap DigitalOcean setup.

The delegated type pattern and multi-table inheritance

Published at May 24, 2020

6 minutes

Rails Architecture Database

A brief explanation on what is the delegated type pattern, recently introduced to Rails Core by DHH.

Moving on from a 5-year old project

Published at May 02, 2020

6 minutes

Entrepreneurship Startups Life

Moving on from projects is hard — especially when you've given up so much for them. Here, I share some thoughts and why I decided to abandon a project I invested over 5 years of my life.