Artisan Weekly
IssueNº 83
Dated8 May 2026
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Artisan Weekly Edition 83

Edition №83

Published
Week ending May 8, 2026
Items
10 featured · 5 notable
● Top 10 Video companion
on YouTube
Editor's
Note

This week I took some time off and spent it in a lovely little place on Norfolk. The signal was terrible but at least there was WiFi! It did feel nice to be touching grass and just unwinding.

Top 10 Links

Featured · Edition 83
01
X Post PHP x.com

What goes on when you call an objects method

Have you ever wondered what actually happens when you call a objects method in PHP well Alexandre Daubois talks us through what actually happens under the hood. Alexandre has tweeted a few great little tweets like this over the last few days so go checkout his x account for more

02
YouTube Video youtu.be

How Laravel Brain package works

Have you ever wanted to visually see what your application does throughout its request lifecycle? well now with Laravel Brain you can. Use it to see each route and what happens throughout each route with an interactive graph to boot.

03
Blog Post masteringlaravel.io

A duplicate ULID that wasn't a collision

Aaron Saray shares a recent debugging story about mysterious ULID collisions that turned out to be caused by Laravel's replicate() method copying the public_id field. He shows how to fix this issue using a replicating hook to ensure duplicated models get fresh ULIDs.

04
Blog Post dev.to

I redirected laravel/nightwatch to my own Postgres and hit 13,400 payloads/s on a single instance

A detailed technical guide showing how to intercept Laravel Nightwatch's observability data and redirect it to your own Postgres database instead of the hosted platform. The author built a high-performance agent using ReactPHP and SQLite WAL buffering that can handle 13,400 payloads per second, perfect for teams who want to keep all their telemetry data in-house.

05
Blog Post hafiz.dev

Filament v5 Multi-Tenancy Implementation

A comprehensive guide to implementing multi-tenancy in Filament v5, covering tenant models, user relationships, automatic resource scoping, and security considerations. Perfect for Laravel developers building SaaS applications who need to support multiple teams or organizations within a single database.

08
Blog Post apnahive.com

Laravel Events & Listeners: Building Decoupled Applications the Right Way

A comprehensive guide to implementing event-driven architecture in Laravel, covering how to create decoupled applications using events and listeners. Learn to dispatch events, handle listeners, queue heavy work, and broadcast real-time updates while maintaining clean, maintainable code as your application grows.

09
Blog Post laravel-news.com

Queue-Wide Inspection Methods in Laravel 13.8.0

The Laravel News team have done it again with a really nice breakdown of the latest Laravel release, there are some really nice new methods in the framework and some really nice queue improvements that will help making them in your applications easier and allow you to get more insight into whats going on with the new worker pausing and resuming events that you can use.

10
Blog Post dev.to

How to scale a Laravel PHP app like Facebook or Twitter (X)

A comprehensive guide covering advanced Laravel scaling techniques including horizontal scaling with load balancers, database read/write splitting, Redis caching, queue management, and Laravel Octane for high-traffic applications. Perfect for developers looking to architect Laravel apps that can handle massive scale like social media platforms.

Also Notable

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Other laravel.com

Laravel 13.x Changelog

I wasn't even aware this was even here so I though it was worth sharing so others know about it as well its the official changelog of updates for each version release of Laravel

Other
Blog Post laravel-news.com

Ship AI with Laravel: Search Entire PDFs with Zero Search Logic

It's time for the latest episode in the Ship AI with Laravel series that Harris has been putting together. So far we've been shown how to build a basic AI Agent that helps answer customers question about an order and it has been enhanced each episode in this episode we go one step further with the vector store and upload documents that will help the agent search for responses to give to the user. A great example being questions about a damaged item

AI / ML
Blog Post apnahive.com

Laravel Sanctum vs Passport: Which Auth Package Should You Use in 2026?

A comprehensive guide comparing Laravel Sanctum and Passport for API authentication in 2026, helping developers choose the right package based on whether they need simple first-party authentication or complex OAuth2 flows. The article provides clear decision criteria and implementation patterns for both authentication solutions.

Blog Post