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The $1,000 AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson. Read more
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A Slice of PIE, PHP’s new extension installer
PIE’s creator James Titcumb shows of PIE. Read more
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Leveraging Promises and HTTP Pooling in Laravel
Laravel 8 first introduced HTTP request pooling, thanks to a contribution from Andrea Marco Sartori. This allows developers to write code which will execute any number of HTTP requests concurrently. Under the hood, this is Read more…
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Build Your Own Private, Self-Hosted AI Applications with Ollama & Laravel
Imagine your team wants to bring AI into their workflow to automate routine tasks, extract insights from data, assist with content creation, or improve customer support. Smart move! Read more
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How to use Flexible Caching in Laravel | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, I’ll have a look at how to use flexible caching in Laravel. A great way to avoid unhappy users who’ll hit invalid cache. Read more
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The effects of the Cloudflare outage on Oh Dear
Mattias shares his insights into what we saw during the outage and our lessons learned. Read more
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Stopping Laravel SQL Injection with sole()
While parameterized queries are the preferred method, sole() adds an extra layer of protection when using raw queries, especially when only one record should match. Read more
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What’s new in PHP 8.5
PHP 8.5 includes the pipe operator, clone with, a new URI parser, and more. Read more
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Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith
Using Laravel’s new traits, WithCachedRoutes and WithCachedConfig, you can significantly reducing test run times. Read more
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Bond: Modern JS in Laravel Blade
In his talk at Wire:Live talk, Filip Ganyicz explores Bond, a new approach that brings the capabilities of modern JavaScript into your Blade views.