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Bob Mwenda is a software engineer at Statum with over ten years of experience building business applications and integrating enterprise systems. His work spans Java, Spring Boot, PHP, Laravel and Vue.js, including API integrations, payment and messaging systems, and application deployment. On the Statum blog, Bob writes about software development, business automation and the practical decisions behind building and maintaining software. His articles help business owners and developers understand implementation options, technical trade-offs and common pitfalls.
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The October 2026 PHP security releases make runtime verification urgent. Use these ten checks to review patching, access, payments, backups and incident response.
Compare Statum's current VAT-inclusive bulk SMS rates in Kenya, sender ID fees, wallet top-up bands, SMS segment billing, delivery reports, and setup steps.
Deploy Laravel to a VPS with GitHub Actions using immutable releases, restricted SSH, health checks, Horizon, and automatic code rollback.
See how Kenya's 2026 PAYE bands, Year 4 NSSF, SHIF and Housing Levy shape take-home pay, with checked examples from KSh 30,000 to KSh 200,000.
See Statum's published starting prices for software projects in Kenya, what changes the cost, and how to plan for hosting, support and future improvements.
A worked first-release brief for a hypothetical distributor, including peak usage, hosting ownership, migration and measurable acceptance checks.
Use this checklist to decide whether an M-Pesa integration is ready for production. Each critical check has evidence, an owner, and a clear pass rule.
Compare candidate workflows by frequency, cost, failure impact, rules, measurement and readiness using a weighted example.
Compare process improvement, configured software, integration and custom development against your real workflow, costs, constraints and support capacity.