Resolving an Invoice Number Collision in an E-Invoice Integration
Two workers produced the same invoice number in production. A log of how I resolved the race condition vs. legal gap dilemma in a real project.
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Building modern PHP applications with the Laravel framework.
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Twelve years with Laravel: growing alongside a framework
From 2014 to 2026, twelve years with Laravel — a story of maturing with a tool, outgrowing it, and choosing it again.
From Idea to Three Platforms: My End-to-End Feature Delivery Flow
The mature, repeatable process I follow when shipping a feature across API, web, and mobile simultaneously.
Laravel 12: As the Release Cadence Matures
I evaluate the changes in Laravel 12 and how the framework's annual release tempo affects project planning.
Building Your Own Product Solo: The Looplio Experience
An honest journal from a developer running the API, web, and mobile single-handedly — the real trade-offs of solo product development.
Shipping a Feature Across Three Layers: API, Web, and Mobile
The end-to-end workflow for delivering a single feature simultaneously across API, web, and mobile layers — lessons from building Looplio.
Feeding mobile and web with the same calendar logic (Looplio diary)
The practical decisions and lessons learned while consistently serving a single business logic to both React Native and web clients in Looplio.
Laravel 11's New Slim Skeleton Structure
A look at Laravel 11's leaner skeleton, the defaults that were removed, and the concrete impact on everyday development workflows.
Async Job Processing with Laravel Queue and Supervisor
How to set up asynchronous job queues in Laravel using the database driver, and keep workers running reliably in production with Supervisor.
Real-time features in Laravel: WebSocket and broadcasting
Adding live updates with Laravel Broadcasting: event-driven publishing, Pusher integration, and listening on the client side.
Laravel 10: Stricter Types and the Process Layer
Laravel 10's type discipline and the new Process facade: how the framework's maturing codebase translates into better day-to-day development.
Laravel 9: New Release Cadence and PHP 8 Compatibility
How Laravel 9's annual release cadence affects project planning, and what PHP 8 compatibility means for your codebase.
Building a Testing Habit in Laravel: Switching to Pest
I explain the syntax and structural differences that turned test writing from a chore into a habit when moving from PHPUnit to Pest.
Laravel Octane: the performance that comes with a persistent process
How Laravel Octane eliminates per-request bootstrap overhead — and the trade-offs that come with it.
Slimming Laravel Controllers with Action Classes
How to write more testable and maintainable code by moving business logic out of controllers and into single-purpose action classes.
From monolith to modern UI with Inertia.js
How Inertia.js delivers a single-page-app feel without a separate API, how it integrates with Laravel, and when it's the right choice.
Laravel 8: Model Factories and the New Directory Structure
A deep dive into Laravel 8's class-based factory system and new directory layout, focused on generating test and seed data.
SPA Authentication with Laravel 7 and Sanctum
How Laravel Sanctum solves SPA authentication, and why its cookie-based approach is cleaner than token-based alternatives.
Interactive Laravel Apps Without Writing JavaScript: Livewire
A practical look at Livewire's server-driven interaction model — when it's the right choice, and where its limits lie.
Laravel 6 and What LTS Really Means: Versioning Strategy
What does the Laravel 6 LTS release actually mean? Evaluating the long-term support decision against your project's lifespan and how to approach versioning strategy.
Using Service Providers and the Container Correctly in Laravel
A practical guide to truly understanding Laravel's dependency resolution mechanism: how to use service providers and the IoC container the right way.
Task Scheduling in Laravel
How I use Laravel's task scheduler to manage multiple scheduled jobs from a single cron entry, keeping all scheduling logic readable and version-controlled inside the codebase.
Multilingual (i18n) Applications in Laravel
Practical notes on adding multi-language support to Laravel: organizing language files, separating text from code, and managing locale switching.
Building a Calendar Events Feature with Laravel
How I built a full calendar feature in Laravel from scratch, handling recurrence rules, timezones, and date range queries end to end.
Laravel Notifications: Email and SMS
How I use Laravel Notification classes to send the same notification logic across multiple channels — email, SMS, and more.
Formatting API Responses with Laravel Resource Classes
How to produce clean API responses with Laravel Resource classes without leaking your database model directly to clients.
Authorization with Laravel Gates and Policies
How to centralize authorization logic in Laravel using Gates and Policies, keeping 'who can do what' decisions clean and testable.
Payment Integration with Laravel (iyzico): A Real-World Experience
Real problems and solutions encountered while integrating iyzico payments into a Laravel project — things not in the documentation.
Simplifying Asset Compilation with Laravel Mix
Laravel Mix provides a fluent API that lets you compile JavaScript and CSS assets without writing Webpack configuration from scratch.
Sending Emails in Laravel with Mailables and Templates
Setting up reliable, maintainable transactional emails using Laravel's Mailable class and Blade email templates.
Thinking in Components with Laravel 5.4 and Blade
How the @component directive introduced in Laravel 5.4's Blade templating engine lets you split views into reusable, well-defined pieces.
File upload and image processing with Laravel
A walkthrough of the end-to-end flow for file uploading, validation, and image resizing in Laravel.
Events and Listeners in Laravel
How I use Laravel's event system to decouple side effects from the main flow — with practical examples of what you gain.
Laravel 5.2: Multiple Authentication Guards and Route Groups
How I manage multiple user types in a single Laravel 5.2 application using guards and route groups.
Adding shared behavior to requests with Laravel middleware
What middleware is in Laravel, how to write it, and how to centralize cross-cutting concerns like authentication in one place.
Eloquent Relationships: hasMany, belongsTo, and Eager Loading
How to define hasMany and belongsTo relationships in Laravel Eloquent, and how to solve the N+1 query problem with eager loading.
Writing JSON API Endpoints with Laravel
A practical walkthrough of building interface-agnostic JSON API endpoints in Laravel.
Consistent Development Environments for Everyone with Laravel Homestead
A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up Laravel Homestead to eliminate the classic 'it works on my machine' problem across teams.
Migrating to Laravel 5: New Directory Structure and .env
A walkthrough of the key changes when moving from Laravel 4 to 5 — directory layout, .env configuration, and application bootstrapping.
Laravel Form Validation in Practice
A repeatable pattern for safely handling user input: Laravel validation rules and error messages.
Simplifying Database Operations with Eloquent ORM
From writing raw SQL to model-based access: a practical look at Laravel's Eloquent ORM and how it fits into day-to-day development.
Blade Template Engine: Eliminating Repetitive HTML
The practical payoff of separating the view layer from logic: using Blade layouts, sections, and partials.
Getting Started with My First Laravel 4 Project
The structure that comes from moving beyond raw PHP to a framework: first impressions, installation, and the basics of Laravel 4.