Cbox Blog

The images size their own FPM pool from measured memory and expose the queue-depth signals a scale-out decision needs.

Every PHP-FPM config starts with a number someone guessed.

I was building a billing engine, so I had to handle tax.

Every product needs login, organizations, roles, SSO and an audit trail.

SSRF guards, risk scoring, jurisdiction lookups, DNS reads.

Sentry and Nightwatch showed green while customers saw errors.

A predictive scaling rewrite, worker topology with exclusive and grouped queues, and multihost cluster orchestration.

Full queue visibility without Horizon or Redis.

I released cboxdk/laravel-health today.

Statamic MCP v2 is released.

I launched pinto.dk today.

How I built an SLA-driven autoscaler for Laravel queues using queueing theory, trend prediction, and backlog drain algorithms.

Why I built a system metrics library with no extensions, no Composer dependencies, and no C bindings.

How Cbox FPM Exporter and Cbox Init work together to give you full observability over PHP-FPM pools, OPcache, and Laravel queues.

The flag skips permission prompts, not all safety controls.

Liveness, readiness, and startup probes are how Kubernetes decides if your pod is healthy.

Version 1 exposed 140+ individual tools.

The Model Context Protocol lets AI assistants interact with your Statamic site directly.

If entry B references A, why can't A see all the B's that reference it?

Your editors should not need a developer every time they want to filter a collection differently.

A year at Laravel gave me experience I could not have gotten anywhere else.

I have decided to leave Laravel at the end of this month.

Back home in Denmark after Laracon US.

I gave my first talk as part of the Laravel team at the Laravel Hungary meetup in Budapest.

I spoke at the Laravel Denmark Copenhagen Meetup about what happens when your Laravel app actually runs.

I brought the Blood, Sweat & Kubernetes talk to LaraFest in the Netherlands.

I started as a contractor in October and went full-time in January.

I am joining the Laravel team as Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help build Laravel Cloud.

A talk I gave at the Laravel Aarhus Meetup on caching strategies in Laravel.

For the past year, I have been quietly building a managed hosting platform for PHP applications.

Most monitoring tools report host resources instead of container limits.

I presented Statamic at Scale at Laravel Live Denmark 2024 together with the Statamic team. 1.74 billion requests per month, 90,000 requests per second during elections, and 40+ custom addons.

Every team builds their own PHP Docker images.

The FastCGI protocol is from 1996 but still powers most PHP applications.

Drove to Rome with my good friend Jacob for Flatcamp, the Statamic community gathering at a private Italian villa.

Supervisord and shell scripts are not process managers.

I gave a talk at the Laravel Copenhagen Meetup on scaling websocket connections in Laravel.

I built two CMS platforms for Denmark's regional broadcaster.

Cbox started as an online PDA built with PHP and Flash before I turned 18.

I migrated close to a million videos from one hosting provider to another at TV2 Regionerne, and built a transcoding platform to re-encode archive video for cost savings.

The 2021 regional election in Denmark pushed the TV2 Regionerne websites to 3 billion requests in a single day.

After five years, I sold my share and left EasyInspect.

EasyInspect at the Denmark Pavilion in London.

Showing Inspection Cloud at Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas.

After two years of building in stealth, I finally showed Inspection Cloud publicly at TUS Nordics in Odense.

I took two developers from EasyInspect to Laracon EU in Amsterdam.

MyDroneAcademy became Denmark's first approved drone school on August 31, 2016.

From 2013 to 2016 I ran what was probably Denmark's largest TeamSpeak 3 server hosting through Cbox. 1.5 kr per slot, 99.99% uptime, DDoS protection, instant provisioning.

Up to 40% of festival visitors are accredited guests who need different handling than ticket holders.

I co-founded Talk IP with Thomas Fest.