Practical engineering articles about PHP modernization, Go migrations, private AI deployments, backend performance, architecture and senior B2B engineering.https://beliaev.dev/enhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/local-ai-transcription/https://beliaev.dev/blog/local-ai-transcription/How to turn meetings, interviews and recordings into private transcripts, summaries and a searchable archive without sending the audio to a public API.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrivate AIlocal AI transcriptionoffline transcriptionWhisperspeech-to-texthttps://beliaev.dev/blog/local-llm-for-business/https://beliaev.dev/blog/local-llm-for-business/Running a local model is easy. Running one that reliably improves a real workflow is not. This is the decision framework before anyone buys a GPU.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrivate AIlocal LLMprivate AIself-hosted AIbusinesshttps://beliaev.dev/blog/local-llm-hardware-requirements/https://beliaev.dev/blog/local-llm-hardware-requirements/How model size, quantization, VRAM, RAM and concurrency interact, with workload profiles you can update as hardware and models change.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrivate AIlocal LLM hardware requirementsLLM GPU requirementsVRAMlocal AI hardwarehttps://beliaev.dev/blog/local-llm-vs-cloud-ai/https://beliaev.dev/blog/local-llm-vs-cloud-ai/A side-by-side of local models and cloud APIs: what you pay, what you give up, and a decision tree that does not assume local is the answer.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrivate AIlocal LLM vs cloudlocal AI vs cloud AIself hosted LLM vs APIhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/on-premise-llm-deployment/https://beliaev.dev/blog/on-premise-llm-deployment/What an on-premise LLM looks like as a service: inference, identity, storage, concurrency and the operational work that vendors normally hide.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrivate AIon-premise LLMself-hosted LLMprivate LLM deploymentinferencehttps://beliaev.dev/blog/private-ai-document-search/https://beliaev.dev/blog/private-ai-document-search/How to let people ask questions about internal documents with citations, using local embeddings and a local model, and where that design fails.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrivate AIprivate AI document searchlocal RAGprivate RAGdocument AIhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/fractional-backend-engineer/https://beliaev.dev/blog/fractional-backend-engineer/The situations where two or three senior days a week solve the problem, the situations where they clearly do not, and how to run the arrangement so it produces real output.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineering Teamsbackendcontractingengineering-managementhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/laravel-to-go-migration/https://beliaev.dev/blog/laravel-to-go-migration/Laravel is not the problem. This is a selective extraction strategy, which workloads leave, which stay, and how to run Go alongside Laravel without breaking auth, queues or the schema.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPHP → Golaravelphpgomigrationhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/php-monolith-to-microservices/https://beliaev.dev/blog/php-monolith-to-microservices/Splitting a monolith trades in-process complexity for network complexity. Here is how to decide whether that trade is worth making, and how to make the first cut so it survives production.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Architecturephparchitecturemicroservicespostgresqlhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/php-performance-before-rewrite/https://beliaev.dev/blog/php-performance-before-rewrite/A rewrite is a very expensive profiler. This is the order I investigate a slow PHP application in, and the point at which changing language actually becomes the right lever.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPHP Modernizationphpperformancepostgresqlredishttps://beliaev.dev/blog/php-to-go-migration-guide/https://beliaev.dev/blog/php-to-go-migration-guide/A workload-first approach to moving parts of a PHP system to Go, including what Go fixes, what it does not, and how to roll out changes without betting the product on a rewrite.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPHP → Gophpgomigrationhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/php-vs-go-backend/https://beliaev.dev/blog/php-vs-go-backend/A workload-by-workload comparison of PHP and Go, runtime model, memory, concurrency, productivity and operations, without pretending either language wins everywhere.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPHP → Gophpgobackendhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/php-workers-to-go/https://beliaev.dev/blog/php-workers-to-go/A background consumer has no latency contract, an existing retry safety net and a one-page interface. That makes it the lowest-risk place to find out whether Go actually helps you.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPHP → Gophpgoqueuesrabbitmqkafkahttps://beliaev.dev/blog/senior-golang-contractor-europe/https://beliaev.dev/blog/senior-golang-contractor-europe/A practical guide to engagement models, interviews, total cost and B2B paperwork when you bring an experienced Go engineer into a European product team.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineering Teamsgocontractingb2bhttps://beliaev.dev/blog/strangler-pattern-php-to-go/https://beliaev.dev/blog/strangler-pattern-php-to-go/How to route traffic, draw boundaries and move data ownership so a PHP monolith is replaced piece by piece instead of rewritten in one jump.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTBackend Architecturephpgoarchitecturehttps://beliaev.dev/blog/symfony-to-go-migration/https://beliaev.dev/blog/symfony-to-go-migration/How to add Go services to a long-lived Symfony platform one workload at a time, Doctrine boundaries, Messenger transports, tracing and rollback, while product work continues.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPHP → Gosymfonyphpgomigration