Designing Versioned API Resources in Laravel That Don't Break Clients
A practical approach to API versioning in Laravel using resource classes, so you can evolve a response shape without breaking existing clients.
Eloquent Relationships and Query Scopes: Patterns for Cleaner Models
How to use relationships, local scopes and query builder macros to keep business logic out of controllers and in models where it belongs.
Laravel Queues and Jobs: Retries, Backoff and Failed Job Handling
A practical look at designing Laravel jobs that fail gracefully, retry sensibly, and leave a clear trail when they don't succeed.
Securing a Laravel App Before Launch: 12 Checks I Run Every Time
A pre-launch security checklist for Laravel 11 and 12: configuration, authentication, input handling, uploads, headers and dependencies, with the code to fix each.
Building a Blazing-Fast REST API in Laravel: Caching, Eager Loading & Rate Limiting
One endpoint was firing 62 queries per request. Here is how eager loading, Redis caching, indexes and rate limiting took it from 840 ms to under 100 ms.