The file sits next to appsettings.json, contains environment variables and URLs, and is read only by the tooling — never by a published application. Putting a real connection…
Deploying to a host that is still receiving traffic means the requests in flight during the swap see a half-updated application, and there is no version of that…
Preloaded files are compiled once at server start and are fixed until php-fpm restarts, which makes a deploy a restart rather than a reload. A restart drops in-flight…
WordPress has no concept of an environment, so every site invents one — and the versions differ enough that a shared plugin cannot rely on any of them.…
A secret in an environment variable is visible in docker inspect, in the process environment, and in any crash dump or error page that prints the environment. The…
21 November brought both, with identical features — 4.4 is the LTS with deprecations still present, and 5.0 is the same code with them removed. That is a…
Compiled templates, container caches and route caches are regenerated on demand and written thousands of times, and every one of those writes goes to disk for no reason.…