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Laravel Fuse is a circuit breaker package for Laravel queue jobs. When an external service like Stripe or Mailgun goes down, instead of letting thousands of jobs timeout (30s each), the circuit opens after a configurable failure threshold and jobs fail instantly. It supports three-state circuit breaking (closed/open/half-open), intelligent failure classification (429s and auth errors do not trip the circuit), peak hours config, and a built-in status page.

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Adding fake() methods to your custom facades in applications and packages can provide some nice DX and APIs.

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Learn what the State Machine Pattern is and how to apply it in your PHP applications with this in-depth article about it

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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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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.

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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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While scopes are useful for simple queries, custom query builders are preferred for complex or frequently used queries.

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Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.

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A blog post explaining some benefits (and drawbacks) of using custom Eloquent collections.

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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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Laravel's accessor caching with shouldCache() boosts performance by preventing repetitive computations for expensive accessors. Additionally, you can work with complex data like addresses using value objects, and Laravel will auto-sync changes back to the model. This improves code efficiency and maintainability, especially for structured data.

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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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This article showcases how you can use Eloquent models, rather than a traditional boolean column, as flags in your Laravel application.

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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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Have you ever wondered how Laravel switches between different drivers' implementations? Well, hang tight, we will learn how!

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Explains what the Code Smell 'Primitive Obsession' is, the damage it can cause to your codebase, how to spot it and - how to fix it!

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Diving into the difference between Laravel's facades and PHP's class aliases.

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Learn about Composition, Inheritance and what Composition over Inheritance means with a little help from some 8-bit friends!

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The repository pattern is a data source abstraction that behaves like a collection; containing domain (value) objects. In this post we'll be exploring what a repository is, and what it is not.

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How to effectively use interfaces to make your PHP package easier to work with and more customizable than ever before.

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