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Decision Journal: When It's Time to Migrate Your Tech Stack

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There was a moment where I stopped typing, leaned back in my chair, and realized: “This isn’t about refactoring anymore.”

I was debugging a bug in a GPS tracker system that had been running for years¹. The bug was simple, vehicle position reports weren’t updating on the dashboard. But to fix it, I had to trace through four different files, two business logic layers tangled together, and one query written without an index. An hour later, the fix was two lines. Two lines.

Migrating Legacy PHP to Go: Why, How, and Lessons Learned

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been in a position where a PHP codebase had grown beyond its limits, new features were harder to add, bugs appeared more frequently, and every deployment felt like flipping a coin. Not because PHP is bad, but because a system built over years without clear architecture eventually becomes its own worst enemy. I remember one day having to rollback three times in a single afternoon because of a “simple” deploy. My stress level that day… yeah, let’s not go there hahaha.