Amitav Roy
I help engineering teams design systems that scale.
17 years building production systems across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS. I write about system design, architecture decisions, and the patterns that keep software running at scale for engineering leaders and developers.
Consultant · Architect · Speaker
What I write about
System Design & Architecture
How distributed systems fail, scale, and recover.
Multi-cloud strategy, database design patterns, and race conditions at production scale.
Read system design articles →Software Engineering & AI
Building with modern tools, done right.
AI-assisted development, MCP integrations, and Laravel delivery practices.
Read engineering articles →Practical How-To Guides
Solutions to real problems. No filler.
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How to · October 2026 · 3 min read
How to Update PHP on Ubuntu After a Security Release
A critical PHP security release is out. Here is how to update PHP on an Ubuntu server with apt, restart the right services and verify the patch.
Read article →System design · October 2026
CI/CD Pipeline for Security Patching: Why It Pays Off
A critical PHP security release lands. With a CI/CD pipeline, patching is an image tag change. Without one, it is a project. Here is what ea...
Software development · September 2026
I Used Jev to Categorize 2,000 URLs for a Research Project
I ran 2,000 URLs from different sites through Jev over OpenRouter to categorize them for a research project. Here's the setup and where a de...