Laravel or NestJS for a new backend
PHP or Node for a greenfield service: what each ecosystem gives you for free, where hosting and hiring differ, and the conditions that actually decide it.
5 min read#php#laravel#nestjs
$ full-stack engineer · India / remote
Full-stack engineer who makes high-traffic platforms fast.
I'm Sandeep. I work on backend performance, caching, technical SEO and AI features on LLM APIs, and I write up what I learn along the way.
- role
- Full-stack Engineer
- stack
- Next.js · Node.js · TypeScript · PHP · Python · Redis
- focus
- performance · caching · technical SEO · LLM APIs
- posts
- 38 written so far
// writing
Deep dives from production work
Eloquent N+1 queries: find them, then fix them
The slowest Laravel pages are usually one loop issuing a query per row. How to make N+1 visible, fix it with eager loading, and stop it coming back.
4 min read#php#laravel#performance
Laravel caching with Redis, past the basics
Cache::remember is the easy part. Stampedes, tags, TTL jitter, locks and what actually belongs in the cache on a busy Laravel application.
4 min read#php#laravel#redis
Laravel queues: retries, failures and what to watch
A queued job will run twice and fail at the worst time. Configuring tries and backoff, making jobs safe to retry, and reading the failed_jobs table before users do.
4 min read#php#laravel#reliability
Moving a blog from a CMS to Markdown files
Dropping a hosted CMS for files in the repo: exporting the content, converting rich text, keeping every URL alive, and verifying nothing was lost.
4 min read#nextjs#seo#architecture
// focus
What I work on
01
Performance at scale
Caching, query and payload work on platforms where a slow page costs real traffic — measured before and after, never guessed.
02
Technical SEO
Crawlability, canonicals, structured data and Core Web Vitals treated as engineering problems, built in from the first commit.
03
AI in production
Claude API work with typed, validated output: structured extraction and classification that holds up outside a demo.
// stack
Tools I reach for
- frontend:
- Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4, Vite, PWA
- backend:
- Node.js, NestJS, Express, PHP 8.4, Yii2, Laravel 13
- scraping_scripting:
- Python, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Requests, pandas, SQLAlchemy
- data:
- PostgreSQL, MySQL / MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Drizzle, Mongoose
- platform_seo:
- Nginx, PM2, Technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, JSON-LD, WordPress
- tooling:
- pnpm monorepos, Puppeteer, Lighthouse, Claude API, Vitest, PHPUnit
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Working on something similar?
If a post here helped, or you're stuck on something in the same territory — performance, caching, technical SEO, AI features — I'm happy to talk it through.