Scaling to a Billion Rows: PostgreSQL Partitioning in Laravel 🐘
The 100-Million Row Wall In enterprise B2B SaaS platforms at Smart Tech Devs, tracking historical data is a compliance requirement. Tables like audit_…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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. …
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…
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…
Как выкатывать ecommerce в Битрикс по частям и не останавливать продажи (7 часть)
Финальная часть серии — про самое нервное в любом ecommerce-проекте: как включать новую архитектуру по частям, не устраивать «большой релиз» и не оста…
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…
Laravel Billing: one package, every gateway, working on day one
Every SaaS billing integration starts the same way: you pick a provider, pull in their package, wire it up — and three months later when the business …
PII Protection in PHP without a framework holding the leash
Every app that touches personal data eventually hits the same wall. You've got a national_id column, an email , a phone number, maybe a credit card. C…
Ecommerce на Laravel, или как мы собрали headless-слой для фронтов (6 часть)
В этой части собираем headless-слой для фронтов: Gateway, композицию API, SDK, ETag, SSR, идемпотентность и единые правила работы с запросами. П…
Verify That Your GitHub Actions Deployment Actually Landed on the Server
How to Verify? GitHub Actions said ✅ Success . The server disagreed. We kept running into a subtle CI/CD problem: after pushing to main , GitHub marke…
Stop Freezing Your API: Async Email Delivery in Laravel
The Synchronous Mail Bottleneck When building an enterprise B2B SaaS at Smart Tech Devs, sending transactional emails is inevitable—whether it is a we…
The Hard Part of Building a Realtime Binary Options Platform Was Not the Chart
From 2018 to 2024 I designed and implemented a production-deployed realtime binary options trading platform as the sole architect and full-stack engin…
Best Programming Language for Backend Web Development: PHP vs Python
Something I get asked constantly by developers picking up their second or third language: PHP or Python for the backend? My answer used to be more con…
Stop Using UUIDs: Why B2B SaaS Needs ULIDs in Laravel 🐘
The Problem with Auto-Incrementing IDs When building a B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs, using standard auto-incrementing integers (1, 2, 3) for y…
Powering Your Progress: Building Robust Solutions with Laravel
In today's dynamic digital environment, merely functional web solutions fall short. Businesses and individuals demand applications that are powerful, …
Stop Wasting Hours: The Production-Ready Laravel 12 + Docker Starter Kit (CI/CD Included)
Setting up a new Laravel project for production is always a headache. You need to configure Nginx, optimize PHP-FPM, set up Supervisor for your queue …
Laravel Google Drive Filesystem: Unlimited Cloud Storage with Familiar Syntax
The Storage Dilemma: Unlocking Unlimited Cloud Power in Laravel with Google Drive As seasoned developers, we've all been there. You're building a fant…