Security by default: the OWASP items we refuse to skip
Apr 24, 2026
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You do not need a platform team to deploy Laravel with zero downtime. You need a handful of primitives and the discipline to wire them up once.
The shape of a deploy
- Build an immutable artifact (Docker image or a zipped release).
- Run migrations with
--isolatedduring a small maintenance window — or use expand/contract for hot tables. - Shift traffic via weighted target groups or a blue/green ALB.
- Warm the new stack before taking traffic — queue workers, cache primers, health checks.
Rollback is a feature
Every deploy has a one-command rollback. Every migration has a reverse plan. If your only recovery strategy is "restore from backup", you do not have one.
Keeping the bill sane
- Reserved instances for baseline workloads.
- Spot for queue workers with graceful shutdown.
- S3 lifecycle rules for logs and backups.
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