Irfan Bhat. Blog https://irfanbaht.in/blog/ Notes on servers, development, performance and AI engineering. en Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Laravel queues in production: supervision, retries and the failures you never see https://irfanbaht.in/blog/laravel-queues-in-production/ https://irfanbaht.in/blog/laravel-queues-in-production/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Queues are the part of a Laravel app most likely to be silently broken in production, because when they fail, nothing visibly breaks. Irfan Bhat Laravel PHP Queues Redis Supervisor DevOps Building AI agents that cannot run away: caps, scopes and audit logs https://irfanbaht.in/blog/ai-agents-that-cannot-run-away/ https://irfanbaht.in/blog/ai-agents-that-cannot-run-away/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT The gap between an agent demo and something you can put in front of your business is not model quality. It is the constraints around the loop. Irfan Bhat AI Agents Claude API Automation Architecture Safety Making a React site rank: prerendering, Core Web Vitals and structured data https://irfanbaht.in/blog/make-react-site-rank-in-google/ https://irfanbaht.in/blog/make-react-site-rank-in-google/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT React does not prevent a site from ranking. Shipping an empty div and hoping the crawler renders it does. The fix is straightforward and largely a build-time concern. Irfan Bhat React SEO Core Web Vitals Prerendering Structured Data Migrating a website without downtime: the pre-flight checklist https://irfanbaht.in/blog/website-migration-without-downtime/ https://irfanbaht.in/blog/website-migration-without-downtime/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Migrations fail in predictable ways, and every one of them is preventable at the planning stage. Here is the checklist I work through before anything moves. Irfan Bhat Migration DNS cPanel Email Hosting PHP-FPM pool sizing: the real reason your server runs out of memory https://irfanbaht.in/blog/php-fpm-pool-sizing-memory/ https://irfanbaht.in/blog/php-fpm-pool-sizing-memory/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT A server that grinds to a halt under moderate traffic usually is not short of RAM. It has been told it may use several times more than it has. Irfan Bhat PHP-FPM Linux Performance nginx Server Management Why your cPanel emails go to spam, and the four checks that fix it https://irfanbaht.in/blog/why-cpanel-emails-go-to-spam/ https://irfanbaht.in/blog/why-cpanel-emails-go-to-spam/ Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Mail from your own server landing in the junk folder is almost never mysterious. It is nearly always one of four checks, and all four take about ten minutes. Irfan Bhat cPanel Email Deliverability SPF DKIM DMARC DNS