I lead the engineering team at Digital Marmalade, work on Spartacus Insights, and build ParkMyAWS. Notes on software engineering, AWS, and building products.https://www.moisis.dev/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/building-a-queued-pdf-export-pipeline-in-laravel/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/building-a-queued-pdf-export-pipeline-in-laravel/How we coordinate graphics preparation, cached output and queued PDF generation in Spartacus Insights, and why exporting includes more than creating the file.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/what-years-of-building-long-pdf-reports-taught-me/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/what-years-of-building-long-pdf-reports-taught-me/What it takes to deliver long assessment reports with user content, charts, reliable navigation and PDF metadata, using Laravel and browser-based tools.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/spartacus-insights-has-a-public-home/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/spartacus-insights-has-a-public-home/One of the SaaS products I've been building at Digital Marmalade finally has a public website. It's been running for 5 years, and anyone can now see what it does.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/parkmyaws-is-ready-for-beta/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/parkmyaws-is-ready-for-beta/The product is done: scheduling works, savings dashboard works, no credentials stored. Now comes the scary bit, putting it in front of real users.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/eight-weeks-of-building-parkmyaws/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/eight-weeks-of-building-parkmyaws/Eight weeks ago I started posting about building ParkMyAWS. Now I'm running the final tests before opening it up to the first beta users.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/how-much-aws-runs-while-nobody-is-working/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/how-much-aws-runs-while-nobody-is-working/Most teams use their dev and staging environments for 8 hours a day and pay for them to run 24. The math on always-on infrastructure, and why it's so hard to fix manually.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/the-hidden-aws-cost/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/the-hidden-aws-cost/AWS quietly bills you for things while you sleep: dev servers, staging environments, forgotten test databases. None of them feel expensive alone, but together they inflate the monthly bill.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/the-hardest-part-of-building-alone/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/the-hardest-part-of-building-alone/Why deciding what not to build is harder than writing code, and the filter that keeps me focused while working on ParkMyAWS.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/building-a-saas-after-bedtime/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/building-a-saas-after-bedtime/What it's actually like building a SaaS product in 90-minute evening sessions: the progress, the unglamorous parts, and why the coding isn't the hardest thing.Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/why-i-am-building-parkmyaws/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/why-i-am-building-parkmyaws/The origin story behind ParkMyAWS: a tool we used and lost after an acquisition, and the simpler version I'm building in late-night sessions.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/migrating-a-legacy-laravel-app-with-ai/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/migrating-a-legacy-laravel-app-with-ai/How I used Claude Code to modernise a neglected marketing site: fixing N+1 queries, stripping dead code, and jumping from Laravel 9 to 12 in a single day.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/why-i-replaced-excel-with-a-web-app-for-payroll/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/why-i-replaced-excel-with-a-web-app-for-payroll/How I turned a complex Cyprus payroll spreadsheet into a type-safe Vue 3 calculator, and what I learned about building financial software.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/my-side-project-stack-in-2026/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/my-side-project-stack-in-2026/The tools and frameworks I'm using across my projects in 2026, what's working, what I'd change, and why I picked each one.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/secure-aws-integrations-the-assumerole-pattern/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/secure-aws-integrations-the-assumerole-pattern/How to build multi-account AWS access without ever storing credentials, using IAM AssumeRole with external IDs and temporary session tokens.Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/action-pattern-in-laravel/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/action-pattern-in-laravel/How extracting business logic into single-purpose Action classes made my Laravel code easier to navigate, test, and maintain.Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/allow-github-actions-to-ssh-into-ec2/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/allow-github-actions-to-ssh-into-ec2/A technical guide on configuring AWS to allow GitHub Actions to SSH into your server.Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/maybe-i-am-not-good-enough/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/maybe-i-am-not-good-enough/Sometimes I feel like I'm falling behind. Here's my take on impostor syndrome as a senior developer, parent, and human.Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/running-multiple-php-versions-on-a-single-ec2-instance/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/running-multiple-php-versions-on-a-single-ec2-instance/How we manage different PHP versions from 5.6 to 8.4 on a single server using Docker and volume mappingSat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/learning-astro/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/learning-astro/I decided to convert the React-based template into an Astro site in order to get my hands on it.Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.moisis.dev/articles/finally-launching-my-site/https://www.moisis.dev/articles/finally-launching-my-site/I hold this domain for some years now and it was about time to launch my site.Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT