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Notes from the integration layer

What I learned building portals, dashboards and CRM syncs — the decisions that held up in production and the ones that did not.

All topics API Architecture Dashboards Integrations Laravel Legacy Marketo Migration MySQL Performance RabbitMQ Salesforce Yii

02 Apr 2026 · 3 min read

Dashboards That Stay Fast: Rollup Tables Over Raw Events

A marketing dashboard querying raw event tables is fine at 100k rows and unusable at 40 million. Pre-aggregation is the boring fix that works — here is how to struct...

Performance MySQL Laravel

22 Jan 2026 · 3 min read

Strangler-Fig in Practice: Migrating a Yii 1 Portal Without a Freeze

Rewrites fail because they demand that the business stop moving. Incremental migration lets both applications run at once — the hard part is the session, not the rou...

Legacy Yii Laravel

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