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14 August 20269 min read
How to modernise a legacy PHP application without rewriting everything
A rewrite is usually the most expensive way to solve a problem an incremental migration would have handled. Here is the approach that took a ten-year-old PHP platform to a modern architecture while it stayed in production.
- Legacy modernisation
- PHP
- Laravel
- Architecture
22 July 20268 min read
Why your Laravel API slows down as your database grows
An API that was fast at launch and is slow two years later almost never has a traffic problem. It has a data problem, and the causes are predictable enough to list.
- Performance
- Laravel
- PostgreSQL
- APIs
18 June 20268 min read
What Australian businesses should consider before adding AI
Notes from building and running a production AI platform — on picking the right problem, what it actually costs, where your data goes, and how to tell a demo from a product.
- AI
- LLM
- Architecture
- Business
12 May 20267 min read
When should a business actually modernise its legacy software?
Old software is not automatically a problem worth spending on. Six signals that mean it is — and the ones that only feel urgent.
- Legacy modernisation
- Business
- Architecture

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Writing about the work

How to modernise a legacy PHP application without rewriting everything

Why your Laravel API slows down as your database grows

What Australian businesses should consider before adding AI

When should a business actually modernise its legacy software?

Have a problem one of these describes?