A fascinating deep dive into the very first commit of Laravel, made by Taylor Otwell on June 9, 2011. The article explores the original directory structure, the early Eloquent ORM, the session system with its clever flash data prefixing, and the authentication basics that are still recognizable in today's framework.
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– frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant
This week I wrote about my experiences with technical and architectural debt. When I was a developer we used to distinguish between code debt (temporary hacks) and architectural debt (structural decisions that bite you later). But in enterprise architecture, it goes way beyond technical implementation.
To me architectural debt is found on all layers.
Application/Infrastructure layer: This is about integration patterns, system overlap, and vendor lock-in. Not the code itself, but how applications interact with each other. Debt here directly hits operations through increased costs and slower delivery.
Business layer: This covers ownership, stewardship, and process documentation. When business processes are outdated or phantom processes exist, people work under wrong assumptions. Projects start on the back foot before they even begin. Issues here multiply operational problems.
Strategy layer: The most damaging level. If your business capability maps are outdated or misaligned, you're basing 3-5 year strategies on wrong assumptions. This blocks transformation and can make bad long-term strategy look appealing.
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– wendelladriel.com - submitted by Wendell Adriel
Explore Laravel’s Service Container from the ground up: resolution, binding, scopes, contextual dependencies, auto-wiring, and more, and demystify how your app runs.
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– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
We’ve moved from command lines to GUIs, and now the next shift is here: AI that can actually use your app. This article introduces the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a powerful way to let AI interact directly with your applications—and why it’s more than just another tech acronym.
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MCP is not a hosted service, a replacement for app logic, or a fix for hallucinations. It is a protocol that provides access to real tools and data, and still requires good prompts and UX
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– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen
Utilize deferred events in Laravel to delay event dispatching, including model events, ensuring listeners run only after a specific closure has finished running.
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– www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman
You're three months into a new job when someone mentions "we have a dozen different branches for our customers." Learn how to escape the custom code nightmare with four proven patterns that actually scale, plus real Laravel examples.
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Some interesting thoughts about caching.
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– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Group by type or context / process? One of these methods will crush your project's growth. Find out which!
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– bert.gent - submitted by Bert De Swaef
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?
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– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
Tackling scalability challenges unorthodoxly in large monoliths with strategies like multi-application infrastructure, circuit fuse, and hybrid DB optimization.
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– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Here's why and how we added a mini container in a framework agnostic package.
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Using a Laravel pipeline is always nice to structure a process like this.
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A polyglot architecture combines PHP and GoLang to leverage their strengths. PHP enables rapid development, while Go optimizes resource utilization.
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– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Learn how to use the Pipeline class in Laravel to break complex workflows into smaller, isolated, focused processes. We'll then look at how to test our Laravel pipelines.
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– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
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Tempest, the framework Brent Roose is working on, allows you to attach a tag to a singleton definition, which means you can have multiple singletons of the same class, as long as their tags differ.
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– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Read about how to use Pest to add architecture tests for your PHP application and enforce standards such as folder structures, naming conventions, and more.
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– davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
Learn about the differences between thinking in terms of data (CRUD) vs thinking in terms of business processes (behaviour) and how it affects code maintainability.
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– blog.oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater
Have you ever wondered how Laravel switches between different drivers' implementations? Well, hang tight, we will learn how!
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