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Learn about servers, serverless and how to deploy PHP and Laravel applications on AWS Lambda using Bref PHP.

Monitor Laravel queues without external packages and get notified when jobs exceed a threshold, ensuring timely action to prevent delays.

Laravel event sourcing generator adds a new Artisan command that can generate a full domain directory structure for Spatie event sourcing.

Learn about the 23 powerful Laravel and Livewire PHP Attributes.

Using Cloudflare Workers we can quickly build an effective API proxy, without spinning up any additional hardware. Whether its needing a CORS proxy, speeding up slow APIs via caching, or rate limit management on stingy APIs, this serverless tech is as easy to set up as it is powerful.

Blade provides directives like @foreach, @while, @for, and @forelse for working with PHP's loop. Did you know... A handy $loop variable is available within these directives.

Statamic’s Field Actions make it super easy to automate tasks like tweaking text or filling in fields. The article shares examples, such as turning text into a title case or grabbing URL metadata.

Sometimes, no matter how senior you are, little issues like this can humble you. I recently faced a confusing issue where I was expecting a relationship to give me a User object, but instead, it just gave me a number! After two days of scratching my head, I finally figured out what went wrong.

Laravel 11.35.0 introduces the URI class simplifying URI handling with methods for schemes, hosts, paths, and more for clearer code.

Did you know you can use Google Sheets to power a JSON API, directly from the sheet, no servers required? Perfect for small app backends and quick prototypes!

Read about the #[RouteParameter] PHP attribute that you can use in Laravel to access route model-bound models in your form request classes. The article covers how to use the attribute and the problem it solves.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look the Eloquent Fluent helper.

Learn about value objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over primitive values.

Complementary package for Laravel Mails, that show all your logged mails in a fancy UI inside Filament!

Laravel Mails can collect everything you might want to track about the mails that has been sent by your Laravel app.

Laravel 11.34.0 introduces Request::fluent() method by Steve Bauman, simplifying access to request data with a Fluent instance for cleaner, null-safe code.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're playing around with 2 carbon functions to see which dates are closest of farthest from a given date.