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How to Set Up Supervisor for Laravel Redis Queues on Amazon Linux 2023

📝 Cloud & DevOps (AWS)

3 min read

How to Set Up Supervisor for Laravel Redis Queues on Amazon Linux 2023

The worst Laravel queue failure is not a crashed worker. A crash is loud: exceptions, failed jobs, alerts. The failure that actually hurts i...

#Laravel Redis queues #Supervisor Laravel setup #Amazon Linux 2023 EC2

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Oct 11, 2025

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How We Optimized a Laravel Application for Lightning-Fast Performance on Shared Hosting

📝 Laravel Applications

7 min read

How We Optimized a Laravel Application for Lightning-Fast Performance on Shared Hosting

This site, mejba.me, runs on Hostinger shared hosting. Not a VPS, not a managed Laravel platform. That is a deliberate choice, and it forced...

#Laravel Performance Optimization #Laravel #Performance

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Oct 08, 2025

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How to Fix “500 Internal Server Error” When Deploying a Next.js App to AWS Amplify

📝 Cloud & DevOps (AWS)

10 min read

How to Fix “500 Internal Server Error” When Deploying a Next.js App to AWS Amplify

You pushed a shiny Next.js app to AWS Amplify. The build passed, logs looked clean, your domain pointed correctly… and then: “500 Internal S...

#Next.js #aws-amplify #Deployment

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Oct 06, 2025

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Ultimate DevOps Guide: Install and Configure PostgreSQL & Redis Locally on AWS EC2 for Laravel (Fix Common Connection Errors)

📝 Cloud & DevOps (AWS)

7 min read

Ultimate DevOps Guide: Install and Configure PostgreSQL & Redis Locally on AWS EC2 for Laravel (Fix Common Connection Errors)

The reason this guide exists is a specific sequence of errors that hits almost everyone who puts PostgreSQL, Redis, and Laravel on one EC2 b...

#laravel postgresql ec2 #install redis amazon linux #aws ec2 laravel production setup

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Oct 05, 2025

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Fix Laravel Vite Assets Loading from Development Server in Production

📝 Laravel Applications

6 min read

Fix Laravel Vite Assets Loading from Development Server in Production

When your Laravel site works locally and ships to production with a blank page, and view-source shows every stylesheet and script pointing a...

#Laravel Vite Production Fix #Laravel Deployment Guide #Fix Vite localhost 5173 Error

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Oct 03, 2025

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ChatGPT-5 Prompt Engineering: A Structured GPT-5 Prompting Guide for Faster, Higher-Quality Outputs

📝 AI & Machine Learning

6 min read

ChatGPT-5 Prompt Engineering: A Structured GPT-5 Prompting Guide for Faster, Higher-Quality Outputs

The leap from GPT-4 to ChatGPT-5 isn’t only about improved intelligence—it’s about structured prompting. Engineers, prompt designers, and pr...

#ChatGPT-5 prompt engineering #GPT-5 prompting guide #structured prompt design

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Sep 30, 2025

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How to Configure MCP Server & Permissions for Codex CLI in Laravel

📝 Laravel Applications

7 min read

How to Configure MCP Server & Permissions for Codex CLI in Laravel

Let me start with a correction, because getting this wrong wastes real hours: Codex CLI does not read an mcp.json file with read/write/deny...

#Laravel MCP Configuration #Codex CLI Setup #AI Development Tools

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Sep 23, 2025

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How to Set Up Supervisor for Laravel Redis Queues on Amazon Linux 2023

How We Optimized a Laravel Application for Lightning-Fast Performance on Shared Hosting

How to Fix “500 Internal Server Error” When Deploying a Next.js App to AWS Amplify

Ultimate DevOps Guide: Install and Configure PostgreSQL & Redis Locally on AWS EC2 for Laravel (Fix Common Connection Errors)

Fix Laravel Vite Assets Loading from Development Server in Production

ChatGPT-5 Prompt Engineering: A Structured GPT-5 Prompting Guide for Faster, Higher-Quality Outputs

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