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Everyone talks about over-engineering but people rarely talk about under-engineering. Learn about the differences and how they depend on the context you are in.

As a project grows larger, it can sometimes become confusing to keep authorization logic in the controllers. A solution to this is to use Policies. But even for small projects, this is very powerful, in fact, I try to use it everywhere, it makes my code clean and readable.

I'll show you how to run Laravel Octane with the new FrankenPHP support inside a Docker container to serve your Laravel application.

FrankenPHP not only adds the great feature set of Caddy to Laravel, but can also compile everything down to a single executable that you can run anywhere!

LLaravel offers an elegant method-calling feature called Facades. At first glance, they resemble static methods, but well, they are not! What kind of magic is Laravel doing?

We experiment with spinning up fast, ephemeral VM's on Fly.io to autoscale Laravel queue workers.

A few days ago, we added a GitLab integration. In this blog post, we'll talk about the road to that integration and our struggles.

We learn how to generate unique YouTube-like identifiers and how to use them in Laravel.

Not once, not twice have we faced the infamous `Token Mismatch` exception in Laravel. But hey, the poor guy is just looking out for you, trying to shield you from the evil 😈, let's dive into Laravel's internals..

Public “asset” routes (serving an SVG or a JS embed) can cause server issues, but just because of extra traffic, but because of sessions!

Read all about how to use Cloudflare's Turnstile CAPTCHA solution to improve the security of your Laravel forms.

An introduction to the Flare GitLab integration!

We see how to configure Nginx to run Laravel in a subdirectory. The configuration is tricky, here's an explanation of it!

A comprehensive guide for creating custom Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) to enhance readability, efficiency, and testability in Laravel API integrations.

A quick tutorial on how to create a custom Laravel Pulse card

Learn how to connect your Flare errors with Jira issues

When it comes to caching, we have to balance performance gains with increased cost of complexity and infrastructure. In our latest post, we talk through a few different caching strategies and approaches so you know the best caching tool for any situation.

Learn how to detect and resolve N+1 issues in your Laravel project by using Ray.

Rendering Laravel Blade components in markdown files.

Abstract classes cannot be instantiated directly, posing a challenge when testing functionality implemented within the abstract class itself. In this article, I share my approach to addressing this issue.