15 articles tagged with ""automation""
After countless deployments, I learned the hard way that 'it works in staging' is not a deployment strategy. Smoke tests run in under 60 seconds and catch the disasters before your users do - here's how to build them.
Tired of typing the same 5 GitHub commands 40 times a day? GitHub CLI extensions let you build your own `gh` subcommands. I built one on a lazy Sunday and it saved me hours every week.
After watching our GitHub-hosted runner bill explode to $800/month and CI jobs queue for 25 minutes during peak hours, I set up self-hosted runners. Build times dropped 80%. Here's everything I learned the hard way.
You're manually running PHP scripts from a sticky note? Bro. Laravel has a whole CLI framework built in. Let's fix that.
After countless deployments, I kept forgetting whether it was `docker compose up --build -d` or `docker-compose up -d --build`. A Makefile fixed my life. Let me fix yours too.
I used to 'ssh prod-server-01' and manually run commands on 40 servers. After countless deployments burned by 3 AM hotfixes, Ansible taught me that configuration management isn't optional - it's survival.
You shouldn't need a sysadmin to schedule a task. Laravel's built-in scheduler turns 47 cron jobs into clean, version-controlled PHP code — and yes, it can run on serverless too.
Maintaining the same GitHub Actions workflow across 15 microservices? One bug fix means 15 PRs. After the pain of keeping CI configs in sync the hard way, here's how reusable workflows changed everything.
Your app gets a traffic spike, your pods fall over, and you're frantically SSH-ing into servers at 3 AM. After painful on-call incidents, I learned that Kubernetes HPA can auto-scale your pods in under 30 seconds - here's how to set it up properly!
You've been copy-pasting that database cleanup script into Tinker for months. It's time to stop living like this and write a proper Artisan command.
Your server's crontab is a cryptic mess nobody understands. Laravel's task scheduler lets you write readable, testable, version-controlled scheduled tasks — and it's been sitting in your app this whole time.
Every week, your npm/composer packages grow a little more vulnerable while you're busy shipping features. Dependabot is GitHub's answer to that creeping dread — an automated bot that files security PRs so you don't have to manually track every CVE ever published.
You're a developer, not a Ctrl+C Ctrl+V machine. Let Artisan handle the boring stuff while you sip coffee and look productive.
You commit broken code, push to main, and realize you forgot to run tests... again. Git hooks are sitting in your .git folder laughing at you. Let me show you how to automate ALL the things you keep forgetting!
Tired of CI/CD configs that look like ancient hieroglyphics? GitHub Actions makes automation so easy, you'll actually USE it. Let me show you how to stop manually deploying like it's 1999!