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It’s pretty much guaranteed these days that your web application will make use of one or more 3rd party APIs. That implies you must also test how your code is handling them.

It can be difficult to make sense of the slow query log when investigating MySQL database performance. Fortunately, MySQL comes with a little tool to help you interpret those queries, called mysqldumpslow.

The kernel patches to mitigate the recent Meltdown and Spectre bugs enable the Page-Table Isolation feature. These patches, dubbed dubbed KAISER or KPTI, remedy these vulnerabilities but can come with a performance loss.

I was looking for a way to automatically rebuild my Go project while editing it. I found a a great little tool called CompileDaemon to solve this problem.

The official Laravel docs mention Supervisor as a preferred process manager to manage queue workers. For my requirements Upstart proved itself capable of handling the job just as well.