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Stubs are fake implementations of interfaces or classes that simulate the behavior of real services.

Enable GitHub Actions to connect to your AWS EC2 instance via SSH

After more than 9 years working with Laravel—leading a dev team and architecting solutions—I still sometimes feel like I’m not doing enough.

In this article, we'll explore using Laravel's Context facade to elegantly scope Eloquent relations at runtime. This technique lets you define relationships that are scoped based on contextual information, leading to cleaner, more maintainable code.

How to run multiple PHP versions on a single EC2 instance using Docker. A practical guide for managing legacy and modern PHP applications while keeping costs down.

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Everyone knows the classic decorator pattern—but have you met its duck-typed cousin? Discover how to extend Laravel behavior without interfaces, the clever way.

If you’ve been working with Laravel for a little while, you’ve probably come across observers and event listeners. But what is the difference?

Find out how we can champion PHP as a community and help bring it to the attention of more developers

A short post about my preferences around type safety and static analysis.

A detailed description on how to implement an effective strategy for modernising a legacy system.

If you have to use AWS for hosting, and for whatever reason, you can’t make use of Forge or Vapor, then one potential elastic, scalable solution is AWS Beanstalk. AWS Beanstalk essentially provides you with a number of EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) servers that sit behind a load balancer. If demand increases then more instances can be created. If demand drops then the number of instances drops down to save you costs.

Stripe metadata is great for config, entitlements, and... DNS? This experiment takes one good API feature and stretches it into the worst possible infrastructure layer.

Learn about covariance and contravariance and how these concepts apply to your PHP code. We'll discuss these concepts in the context of classes, union types, intersection types, parameter types, and return types.

Transforming and serving images from Laravel in a cache-friendly way.

Learn how to convert file sizes in bytes to human-readable file sizes using the "Number::fileSize" method. For example, we'll show how to convert "1024" to "1 KB".