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Laravel Sessions Database Performance PHP

One Request Waited 5 Seconds to Clean Up Laravel Sessions. Here Is What 13.39's session:garbage-collect Changes

I filled a Laravel sessions table with a million expired rows. The lottery made one visitor wait 5.2 seconds. The 13.39...

Nov 05, 2026 9 min read

Laravel Composer Security DevOps PHP

Composer 2.11's Cooldown in a Laravel App: Safer Updates, Except When the Update Is the Security Fix

I turned on the new Composer cooldown in a Laravel 13 project. The first full update failed, because a security fix was...

Nov 02, 2026 11 min read

Laravel API Development Eloquent Performance PHP

Laravel's Built-In JSON:API Resources vs timacdonald/json-api vs laravel-json-api: Which One Your API Needs

I built the same JSON:API three ways on Laravel 13.38. One question decides which you need, and the built-in has an N+1...

Oct 29, 2026 10 min read

Laravel MySQL Database Queues Sanctum

Your Users Save and Still See Old Data: Laravel 13.38 Fixes Read Replica Lag, Except in 3 Places

I put the new stale-read middleware in front of a MySQL replica held 5 seconds behind. The setup from the docs still ser...

Oct 26, 2026 13 min read

Laravel PHPStan Larastan Claude Code Testing

I Ran Larastan at Every Level on Agent-Written Laravel Code: 4 Real Bugs, 3 Kinds of Noise

Larastan from level 0 to 10 on a production Laravel app written mostly by an agent. Where the real bugs were, and what t...

Oct 22, 2026 11 min read

DevOps Laravel Laravel Cloud Claude Code VPS

Going Cloud-Only With Laravel: What 7 Weeks on a €5 Dev Box Taught Me

Taylor Otwell wants to skip local dev tools. I moved my Laravel work onto a €5 box seven weeks ago. What it costs, and w...

Oct 19, 2026 12 min read

Laravel Security DevOps Environment Variables PHP

Stop Sharing .env Files in Slack: Laravel's Built-In env:encrypt Workflow

Laravel can encrypt .env files so they live in git, readable only with the key. The workflow, the new diff-friendly mode...

Oct 15, 2026 11 min read

Filament Laravel Livewire Security PHP

Filament 5.10 Security Fixes: The Livewire Scope Gap Your Upgrade Doesn't Close

Filament fixed four security advisories in 5.10. Upgrading closes most of them, but one root cause sits in Livewire and...

Oct 12, 2026 12 min read

Laravel Laravel AI SDK AI Agents PHP

Laravel AI SDK Skills: Load Agent Instructions Only When They're Needed

Agent skills landed in Laravel AI SDK v1.1.0. Here is how LoadSkill works, and how to give each team its own skills from...

Oct 08, 2026 12 min read

Laravel Migrations MySQL Testing PHP

Squashing Laravel Migrations: 5 Ways schema:dump --prune Bites a Real Team

schema:dump --prune turns hundreds of migrations into one file. I reproduced the five ways it quietly breaks a team, and...

Sep 30, 2026 10 min read

Laravel Mercure FrankenPHP Real-Time PHP

Laravel Mercure Broadcasting: Real-Time Without a WebSocket Server (and 3 Setup Traps)

Laravel 13.32 ships a Mercure broadcast driver. I built presence and encrypted channels on FrankenPHP and hit three trap...

Sep 28, 2026 11 min read

Laravel File Storage AWS S3 DevOps PHP

Migrate Laravel Uploads From Local Disk to S3 With Zero Downtime: Read-Through Disks and moveToDisk

Laravel 13.26 added read-through disks and 13.32 added moveToDisk. Together they turn a storage migration into a config...

Sep 24, 2026 11 min read