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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Frank: your supercharged Laravel Sail alternative
Today I'm super excited to come out of the shadows (as a "corporate developer") and finally propose the community something that (maybe) can be useful…
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…
How I Built an Open-Source Social Media Scheduler with Laravel
I wanted to get consistent at posting: one calendar across every network, planned a week ahead instead of thrown together the morning of. The problem …
Healthchecks в Docker Compose для Laravel: как сделать так, чтобы сервисы запускались в правильном порядке
Если вы хоть раз поднимали Laravel-проект в Docker Compose, наверняка сталкивались с ситуацией: контейнер с приложением стартует раньше, чем база данн…
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…
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…
Brave CMS – A CMS Built for Simplicity, Flexibility, and Scalability
In a world filled with bloated content management systems and overly complex admin platforms, developers often search for a solution that balances sim…
reverse Haitao Development's 3 Common Pitfalls
When I received this demand, my first reaction was, "Can't this thing work with a ready-made solution?" Later, after a careful analysis of the busines…
Screenshot-Driven Vibe Coding: Why Your AI Workflow Needs a Glossary Step
The other day I came across a Claude Code todo list that looked like this: ✓ Read and identify all screenshots ✓ Categorize screenshots into 4 groups …
Contributing to Laravel Maestro Starter Kits Without Losing Your Changes
What is Maestro Maestro is an upstream generator repository for generating and managing Laravel starter kits. The following starter kit repositories a…
Stop Storing Passwords: Build Enterprise SSO in Laravel 🛡️
Passwords are a Technical Liability When building a B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs, the default instinct is to scaffold standard email and passw…