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3 posts on zero-downtime.

Expand-and-Contract: Safe Database Migrations for Zero-Downtime Laravel Deploys

Expand-and-Contract: Safe Database Migrations for Zero-Downtime Laravel Deploys

A renamed column can 500 your Laravel app for 40 seconds even with zero-downtime deploys. Learn the expand-and-contract pattern: dual writes, chunked backfills, and contract releases, with real migration code for MySQL and Postgres.

Sameh Elhawary · Sep 15, 2026 · 22 min read
Upgrading to Laravel 13 in Production with Zero Downtime

Upgrading to Laravel 13 in Production with Zero Downtime

A production playbook for upgrading to Laravel 13 without downtime: PHP pre-flight checks, Composer strategy, additive migrations, atomic symlink deploys, worker restarts, and a rollback plan that actually works.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 14, 2026 · 15 min read
Zero-Downtime Laravel Deployment: How It Actually Works

Zero-Downtime Laravel Deployment: How It Actually Works

How zero-downtime deployment works for Laravel: atomic symlinks, shared storage, graceful PHP-FPM reloads, and instant rollback. No dropped requests during deploy — here's the full mechanism.

Sameh Elhawary · Mar 27, 2026 · 11 min read