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This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026

How We Cached Laravel News at the Edge with Fast Laravel

Do you own a large website with lots of traffic and have you ever wondered how you'd go about caching this site and how to handle all the dynamic elements of the site. Well This Laravel news post helps you figure out how to go about doing this and the approaches you can take

They Said No to Generics… So Swoole Built TypePHP

So it looks like the PHP Generics RFC is going to be rejected, step forward TypePHP!

How We Built Laravel Cloud's Scale to Zero

Laravel Cloud now scales to zero and wakes 20x faster using checkpoint/restore technology. This technical deep dive explains how the team achieved sub-500ms wake times by preserving in-memory state, allowing your entire stack - including databases and cache - to sleep and wake together, dramatically reducing costs whilst maintaining performance.

A generic tragedy

Brent Roose and other PHP developers share their perspectives on why runtime-erased generics are essential for PHP's future, highlighting how the community has been using them in comments for years and why formalising this syntax matters for modern development workflows.

Multi-Agent Orchestration in Laravel: When You Actually Need It

A practical guide to implementing multi-agent workflows in Laravel AI SDK, explaining when specialist agents genuinely improve your application versus when they're just adding unnecessary complexity and latency. Includes real-world examples of building refunds specialists and handling delegation pitfalls.

Eloquent Optimization: withExists and withCount Beyond N+1

Learn how to optimise Eloquent queries beyond basic N+1 solutions using withExists() and withCount(). These powerful methods efficiently check relationship existence and count related records using subqueries, without loading unnecessary data.

TIL: Identifying Exceptions in Laravel Middleware

Luke Kuzmish explores how Laravel's routing Pipeline handles exceptions and reveals how to capture them in middleware using the ResponseTrait's exception property, rather than traditional try-catch blocks.

Laravel Pennant: Feature Flags Done Right — Without the $500/Month SaaS Bill

A comprehensive guide to implementing feature flags in Laravel using Pennant, covering gradual rollouts, A/B testing, beta user groups, and kill switches without the need for expensive third-party services like LaunchDarkly. Learn three approaches to defining features, from simple closure-based definitions to class-based implementations for complex flag logic.

Livewire Form Objects — The Right Way to Handle Complex Forms in Laravel

If your Livewire component has more than 5 public properties for a form, that’s your sign you need a Form Object. Awam shows us how to take our large form and turn it into a form object to make your life easier.