When Your App and the Gateway Disagree: Orphan Cleanup and State Reconciliation
Anyone who manages an external system from a Laravel app eventually hits the same uncomfortable truth: your database thinks one thing, the external sy…
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How a Five Line Architecture Test Caught a Data Leak a Code Review Missed
TL;DR: Pest PHP can test the structure of your code, not just its behavior. Write your team rules as architecture tests and CI enforces them on every …
One Nullable Timestamp, Four Account States: Deriving User Status in Laravel
Most of today went into a user-management overhaul in kickoff — my Laravel starter kit. Flyout CRUD panels, bulk actions, permission assignment, and t…
Deep-Linkable Livewire: Scoping a Browser to the Thing You Clicked
Today's work was a small piece of UX that's easy to underestimate: making an admin "browser" page scope itself to whatever you clicked to get there. T…
Prevent Cache Stampedes: Atomic Locks in Laravel 🛡️
The Cache Stampede Avalanche When engineering high-traffic applications at Smart Tech Devs, caching heavy database responses is your first line of def…
Making encrypted Laravel config backups portable across APP_KEYs
Here's a fun one. You build a package that backs up an app's config — the .env plus the settings stored encrypted in the database — into a single pass…
Building a Permission-Gated MCP Server in Laravel (Without Opening a Backdoor)
I spent today wiring an MCP server into a Laravel app that manages a Kong API gateway. The interesting part wasn't "make the AI talk to the app" — tha…
The Freebuff Paradox: Elite Code Critic, Terrible Laravel Programmer
When you're building a complex backend system—like an enterprise-grade Point of Sales (POS) API using Laravel with a Modular Monolith architecture and…
Optimizing images stored on S3 with ShortPixel: a Laravel walkthrough
If your Laravel app lets users upload images and sends them straight to S3, there is a good chance you are storing files much larger than they need to…
The X-Inertia cache trap: Cloudflare, Vary, and edge-cached HTML
I clicked the logo on one of my Laravel + Inertia sites and the homepage rendered inside Inertia's error modal — in production, on a 200 response. The…
How to Integrate OpenAI API with Laravel (Complete Guide 2026)
How to Integrate OpenAI API with Laravel (Complete Guide 2026) Laravel is the most popular PHP framework, and adding OpenAI to it is straightforward w…
Build a versioned Laravel API with auto-generated OpenAPI docs in 10 minutes
TL;DR — We'll install dskripchenko/laravel-api , write one controller, and end up with a versioned API ( /api/v1/... ) and interactive OpenAPI 3.0 doc…
Defeating the OFFSET Penalty: Cursor Pagination in Laravel
The Hidden O(N) Pagination Trap When building data-heavy B2B SaaS platforms at Smart Tech Devs, rendering lists of invoices, logs, or user rosters is …
Laravel `Bus::bulk()`: Faster Dispatch, Harder Queue Tradeoffs
Bus::bulk() is not a fancy alias for dispatch() in a loop, and it is definitely not a lighter Bus::batch() . In Laravel 13, it is a lower-level dispat…
I Built an Open Source Telebirr SDK for Laravel After Fighting Signature Failures for Days
If you've integrated Telebirr in Laravel or PHP before, you've probably seen this error: 60200099 Verify the sign field failed At first it looks simpl…
How I Refactored a 1,200-Line Filament Resource Into Something I Could Actually Maintain
Originally published at hafiz.dev You know the resource is in trouble when scrolling to table() takes three full page-downs past the form definition. …
Stop Fake Webhooks: Master HMAC Signatures in Laravel 🛡️
The Webhook Spoofing Vulnerability When engineering a B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs, relying on external services like Stripe, Shopify, or GitH…
Is There a CMS Built with shadcn/ui? Yes — UnfoldCMS
📝 Originally published on unfoldcms.com — reposted here for the DEV community. (I work on UnfoldCMS.) Search "is there a CMS built with shadcn/ui" and…
Defend External APIs: Redis Token Bucket in Laravel
The Silent Vendor Ban Danger When architecting a high-performance B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs, your system frequently depends on external thi…
Database Optimization Techniques for High-Traffic Laravel Applications
Your Laravel app works great in development. A few hundred users hit it in production and suddenly query times balloon, your server sweats, and you're…
I shipped a support desk by deleting a dependency
I added a support desk to LaraFoundry this week. The first commit in the slice removed a package instead of adding one. LaraFoundry is a reusable SaaS…
Typed Eloquent boundaries without building a second ORM
Most Laravel teams do not need to "fix" Eloquent. They need to stop letting raw model state leak too far into code that makes real business decisions.…
Flaky Tests in Laravel: Why Your CI Randomly Fails
Your test suite passes locally. CI fails. You rerun the pipeline. Now everything is green. You change absolutely nothing. An hour later, another rando…
Building a ReAct Chat Agent with the Laravel AI SDK
Building a ReAct Chat Agent with the Laravel AI SDK This tutorial walks through how to build a streaming, chat assistant on top of the Laravel AI SDK …
What We Learned Building a Multi-Tenant Payroll Engine in Laravel
Payroll software looks simple from the outside. You multiply hours by rate, subtract taxes, and send a number to a bank. That's it. Then you actually …
Why I Built a Laravel Starter Kit
Why I Built a Laravel Starter Kit Every new Laravel project used to start the same way. Authentication setup. Roles and permissions. User management. …
I added a language switcher to my SaaS core, and the boring feature had two real bugs
This is the next entry in a build-in-public series where I extract a real, production Laravel CRM into a reusable SaaS core, one module at a time, and…
PHP Generics Already Exist: They're Just Hidden in PHPDoc
Every Laravel dev has written PHP generics. You just wrote them inside a comment and pretended it didn't count. /** @return Collection<CartItemDTO&…
Laravel Google Sheets v1.1.0: Diff Previews, Sync Methods, Dry Runs, and Retry Backoff
Google Sheets is often where business workflows begin. For Laravel apps, that usually means imports, exports, internal dashboards, user-managed spread…
When AI Features Belong in Your Existing Backend
Most teams do not create a second backend for AI because they have a scaling problem. They create it because the feature feels unfamiliar. That is usu…