Daniel Petrica tells the story of how an unpatched Livewire vulnerability on a forgotten side project exposed Mailcoach API keys and led to 50,000 spam emails being sent. It is a useful reminder to keep dormant apps updated, and a good real-world example of how Docker can limit the blast radius when something goes wrong.
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Logarithmic auto-scaling for Laravel Horizon
A thoughtful write-up on adding logarithmic auto-scaling to Laravel Horizon. It shows how log-based weighting keeps huge queue spikes from starving smaller realtime queues while still giving large backlogs enough workers. Read more