Daniel Lockyer

Daniel Lockyer

Performance-focused freelance software engineer who optimizes the full stack - frontend, backend and infrastructure - to generate more revenue and cut costs for businesses.

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A collection of 4 issues

How a software upgrade can make you more money

My work involves clients coming to me looking for a server tune-up. One of the things I can do is to look at the software they're currently running and look at upgrading it to the latest version. A common example here is PHP. I often see people still

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Quickly debugging server issues

Part of my job as a server consultant is maintaining servers and quickly responding to issues as they arise. Yesterday, I unlocked my phone to find a message from a client. He said Apache was getting railed and the server load was over 80. I quickly opened my laptop and

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Creating a PHP response time dashboard

Following my previous post about creating histograms from PHP response times [https://daniellockyer.com/php-response-time-histograms/], I made a small dashboard so I could see those histograms across each site. It was fairly simple to make -- I just looped over the last 50000 lines in the log file, checked if

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Upgrade your PHP

At the end of 2018, PHP 5.6 and 7.0 will reach their end-of-life status and no longer receive future security updates. That means it's time to upgrade your PHP. On October 22nd, I came up with the idea of creating a microsite to bring awareness to

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