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Practical writing on building a company, leading as CTO, and hustling without burning the people who make the work possible.
A free public Docker image: PHP 8.5 + Swoole 6.2.2 rebuilt with io_uring. Multi-arch (amd64 + arm64). ARM64/Graviton recommended for best throughput per dollar. Drop-in base with Nginx and Supervisor.
Security basics early-stage startups should fix before fundraising: auth, secrets, encryption, access, dependencies, backups, logging — and SOC 2 sequencing.
MarginTop's engineering principles for scope discipline — how we decide what not to build so teams ship trustworthy software.
What Roshan Kc looks for when hiring engineers as a first-time CTO: ownership, communication, and trade-off judgment over résumé keywords.
How Cursor and Claude changed MarginTop's engineering velocity while review, tests, domain docs, and secret hygiene kept our standards intact.
Why MarginTop still ships a modular Laravel monolith — the hidden costs of premature microservices and when splitting actually makes sense.
MarginTop's build vs buy framework: differentiator vs commodity, Stripe/Cashier and Sanctum examples, and the maintenance tax of building in-house.
How MarginTop uses Laravel Octane with Swoole workers, task workers, and Octane::concurrently to handle concurrent load without rewriting the Laravel app.
TypePHP is Swoole's open-source AOT compiler (PHP to C++ to native). What it means for PHP performance, early caveats, and why we still ship with Laravel.
Why MarginTop prioritizes business logic over the perfect tech stack — AI lowers stack regret, while data and rules remain the real risk.
Why MarginTop Solutions chose Laravel over Node.js: hiring pool, team velocity, Forge/Vapor/Cashier/Sanctum, and when we would reconsider.
Stack AWS Activate, Azure, and Google Cloud startup credits to keep infrastructure near $0 until you validate or raise.
A CTO playbook for speed without silent quality debt.
How MarginTop grew from online freelancers to a Pulchwok crew.
Beyond the title — architecture, trust, and unblocking the room.
The real tradeoffs of going full-time on MarginTop in Kathmandu.