Household Manager: agents that run the house on the clock
Household Manager is a Laravel application I am building in public. The point is not a chat window that invents a grocery list. The point is a set o…
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The controller that does nothing: thin controllers via FormRequests, resources, and route-model bind
Here's my entire user-management controller. Five endpoints, and the longest method is four lines: class UserController extends Controller { public…
Laravel AI SDK 1.2: Agent Skills, Cohere & Smarter AI Workflows
Laravel AI SDK 1.2: Agent Skills, Cohere & Smarter AI Workflows Artificial intelligence is becoming a practical part of modern web development.…
RESTful API vs REST API: Is There Actually a Difference?
What is REST? REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style , not a protocol or a standard. It was introduced by Roy Fielding in…
Strangling Procedural Legacy PHP into Laravel
The big bang rewrite is the most confident decision an engineering team can make and one of the worst. The pitch is always reasonable. The current s…
Building Bulletproof Laravel APIs using Schema-First Contract Validation
Most Laravel APIs I review have the same shape. There is a controller, there is a FormRequest, and somewhere in a folder nobody has opened in four m…
Seven Days in Ten Milliseconds
Last month I walked through building an order fulfilment workflow with the workflow engine: signals arriving from webhooks, timeouts bounding the wa…
SOLID Principles in PHP and Laravel: First Part (SRP or Single Responsibility Principle)
SRP says a class should have one reason to change. That does not mean one method or one line. It means one job. If a database change, a new JSON for…
When Redis goes down, does your app die?
The Problem: The App Dies There was an incident that caused our application to fail because our Redis cache went down. It was in the middle of movin…
No measurement, no optimization
No measurement, no optimization. There's a common saying in programming: "Don't optimize what you haven't measured yet." You can only truly apprecia…
Pelican vs Reviactyl v26: Which Pterodactyl Successor Should You Choose in 2026?
Pterodactyl changed the game for self-hosted game server management. For years, it has been one of the most recognizable open-source panels for mana…
Downloading an Entire Facebook Photo Album as a ZIP: How I Built It
Downloading a single photo from Facebook is easy enough. Downloading an entire album is a different story. If an album contains dozens of photos, sa…
Как я переписал каталог из 500 000 SVG‑иконок с Laravel на Go и уменьшил сервер с 4/6 ГБ до 2/2 ГБ
Больше года назад я запустил SVG4 — каталог векторных иконок. Сейчас в нём больше 500 000 SVG‑файлов. Первая версия была написа…
Layered Abuse Control for Self-Hosted Laravel Admins
You locked HTTPS. You hardened login. Backups are on a calendar. Bots still hammer admin login and public forms all day. Credential stuffing does no…
Enabling HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 for Your Laravel App: A Practical Nginx Guide
Open your Laravel app on a phone with two bars of signal and watch the network waterfall. On HTTP/1.1, the browser opens six TCP connections and que…
Laramod: Laravel modules without the magic that still feels magical
Why Every Laravel application starts out tidy. Then it grows, and one day app/Http/Controllers has eighty files in it, billing sits beside the blog,…
How I Built a Broken Link Scanner for Large Websites
A broken link checker sounds like a weekend project. Fetch a page, collect every <a href> , request each URL, and report anything that returns…
Tired of "new" Everywhere? Learn Factory Method with Laravel
1. Hook & Problem Statement You're building a Laravel application. You need to create a payment processor. So you write: $processor = new Stripe…
Building PHP Ukraine with Laravel and PostgreSQL
A couple of weeks ago I started building PHP Ukraine . The initial idea was pretty simple. I wanted one place where PHP developers in Ukraine could…
Show DEV: Kamus Kode – A Ready-to-Use Code Snippet Reference Platform
What I Built Hi DEV community! 👋 I built Kamus Kode ( Code Dictionary ), a web platform designed to help developers—especially in Indonesia—search,…
Stop Writing Massive if-else Blocks: Master the Strategy Pattern in PHP & Laravel
1. Hook & Problem Statement You're a Laravel developer. You need to build a shipping cost calculator. You start simple. if ($country === 'USA')…
Defeating Race Conditions: Optimistic Locking in Laravel 🛡️
The Lost Update Problem in High-Concurrency Systems In enterprise SaaS applications, data integrity is paramount. When multiple users or background…
Laravel & Design Patterns — Practice Series: Builder
I was tired of seeing how many articles repeat, again and again, basic examples of using design patterns in development; examples based on shape fig…
Atomic Microservices: Transactional Outbox in Laravel 📦
The Fatal Dual-Write Problem As your enterprise backend evolves from a monolithic application into a distributed microservices architecture, you ine…
Giving AI Agents the Same RBAC Rules as Your Users: Building a Laravel Permission Layer LLMs Actually Respect
AI agents don’t use web browsers. They don’t click buttons, submit forms, or trigger standard HTTP requests that pass through your middleware stack.…
Multi-Agent Orchestration in Laravel: Coordinating Specialists Instead of One Giant Prompt
The first version of most AI features is not a system. It is one giant prompt doing too many jobs. It is supposed to understand the user, check acco…
From API to AI Agent: Turning a Laravel Backend Into a Tool-Using System
Your team decides to add an AI agent to your Laravel application. The initial plan seems straightforward: give the LLM access to your existing REST…
What Is an AI Harness? A Practical Guide with a Laravel CMS Example
An AI harness is a structured set of files, rules, skills, workflows, and project context that surrounds an AI coding agent. Instead of repeating th…
Laravel Cloud vs Forge vs a Self-Hosted VPS
Laravel Cloud vs Forge vs a Self-Hosted VPS Three paths exist for getting a Laravel application into production: let Laravel Cloud handle everything…
The Life of a Permission Check: Following One Request Through 14 Layers of Authorization
TL;DR: What actually happens when a user clicks "Delete" in your Laravel app? Most developers think it's a single boolean check. In reality, a moder…