Another great week, it feels like the community is really coming alive. The second Laravel Manchester took place and Laravel Wales was announced and the first event is in the calendar. It's a right buzz at the moment with so many great events that we as Laravel devs can go to now its great.
Have you been thinking about moving to Laravel Cloud but wondered how well can it handle load? Well Devon has you covered with this comprehensive real-world load test of Laravel Cloud's autoscaling capabilities using k6, demonstrating how the platform handled 17,000 requests per second and 39.6 million total requests with realistic traffic patterns. The test reveals Laravel Cloud's impressive performance under extreme load, sustaining over a million requests per minute through the full middleware stack with minimal failures.
Josh Cirre has recently built a cool tool that allows you to provide UI feedback to your AI Agents in this video he talks with Leah about it.
If you didnt manage to make this years PHPUK Conference, the team have now released the videos for the full schedule
A comprehensive Laracasts series teaching Laravel developers how to integrate AI capabilities into their applications using modern tools and techniques. Perfect for developers looking to add intelligent features to their Laravel projects without starting from scratch.
Christoph talks us through some of the new features in the latest release of Laravel from semantic/vector search to more PHP attributes and finally JSON:API Resources for all you API fans out there.
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Ollie ReadLearn how to properly configure the new `composer run dev` command to work seamlessly with Laravel Sail. Ollie's detailed guide walks through the problem of running concurrent processes with Sail and provides a solution to avoid issues when stopping containers.
A helpful tool that automatically generates GitHub Actions test matrices for Laravel projects, making it easier to test across multiple PHP and Laravel versions. Built by Chris Morrell to solve a common pain point in maintaining open source Laravel packages.
Andrew Schmelyun has been busy, recently building Liminal a browser based Laravel IDE, write code in your browser and see it run!
Harris starts his new series based on the Laravel AI SDK, so if you're looking for an excuse to give it a go follow along with this series to understand all about the SDK and how it can be used
In this video Christoph goes through a number of companies who've made the switch to Laravel cloud, so if you've been thinking about making the change and you're just not sure take a look at some of the companies who already have.
Learn how a simple change from `fill()` to `set()` in Livewire tests can dramatically reduce test suite execution time from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. This upgrade tip helps developers optimize their Livewire testing performance by reducing unnecessary round-trips per field.
Povilas walks us through setting up login and registration with your NativePHP mobile app using both normal email registration and google login.
Today I'm joined by Elizabeth Barron, the new PHP Foundation Director, to talk about PHP, the Foundation, and the future.
Joel Clermont and Aaron discuss a crucial testing principle: if you can't make a test fail by changing your application code, it probably shouldn't be in your test suite. They share practical examples and explore how different test types help you focus on testing your actual business logic rather than Laravel's framework code.
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