CASE 01 Integration
Syncing customer data between CRM and accounting
Three flows: a nightly bulk sync, a webhook for realtime changes and a manual per-customer check. Including VAT fields on two levels.
n8n · REST · webhooks · cron
Read caseBram Holtackers — developer
I build the parts you don’t see: integrations, automation, the server underneath.
Web developer at a web agency. WordPress and WooCommerce as the foundation, with API integrations, n8n automation and self-hosted infrastructure around it.
CRM source
webhook · realtime
n8n nightly · bulk
REST · upsert debtor
Accounting target
01 / Work
Selected cases
Client work is anonymized. Problem, approach, result.
LAB 01 Infra
Own VPS: Plesk and Docker side by side
Containers via Portainer, wildcard DNS and nginx as reverse proxy. This site runs on it too.
Docker · Portainer · Plesk · nginx
Read case02 / Specifications
Datasheet
What I use in production every day. No progress bars, no stars.
- Core
- PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, ACF, WP-CLI
- Integrations
- REST APIs, webhooks, n8n
- Data
- MySQL, large SQL dumps, WP All Import
- Infra
- Docker, Portainer, Plesk, nginx
- Frontend
- Astro, JavaScript, Tailwind
03 / Method
Evidence over assumption.
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Reproduce
A bug I can’t reproduce doesn’t exist yet.
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Hypothesis
A strict theory first, then a line of code.
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Isolate
Rule out variables until one cause remains.
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Log
Code that says what it’s doing, so the next bug takes less time.