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Blog Post danielpetrica.com

LaraPlugins Perf Audit: 12 Fixes That Saved my server

A detailed performance audit of LaraPlugins.io that reduced server memory usage from 90%+ to sustainable levels. Covers 12 practical optimisations including Horizon worker configuration, queue management, database indexing, and Cloudflare cache handling for a Laravel application indexing 76,000 packages.

Daniel Petrica

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Blog Post AI / ML badge.laravel.cloud

Shipping Laravel Boost Guidelines With Your Package

A practical guide for package maintainers on shipping AI guidelines and agent skills with their Laravel packages using Laravel Boost. Learn how to add guidelines and skills that give coding agents like Claude and Cursor working context about your package automatically.

Peter Fox

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Podcast Episode share.transistor.fm

Inside Laravel's Starter Kits with Wendell Adriel

In this episode of the Laravel Podcast Matt Stauffer talks to Wendell Adriel, they chat about the starter kits hes worked on since joining Laravel, his path into coding and how he ended up at Laravel.

Matt Stauffer · Wendell Adriel

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Blog Post hafiz.dev

Laravel Cloud Managed Queues vs Horizon Compared

A thorough comparison of Laravel Cloud's new Managed Queues versus Horizon, examining the trade-offs between auto-scaling SQS-backed workers that scale to zero and Horizon's Redis-powered flexibility. Covers crucial limitations like the 15-minute delay cap and what you sacrifice when moving away from Redis features.

Hafiz Riaz

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YouTube Video youtube.com

Managed Queues: Deep Dive w/ Kieran Brown

Kieran gives us an insight into Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud.

Leah Thompson · Kieran Brown

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YouTube Video AI / ML youtube.com

What Happens When OpenAI Goes Down at 2AM - Ship AI with Laravel EP9

What happens if your AI Provider goes down at stupid o clock in the morning and your agent is currently locked to one provider. In this episode Harris looks to make your agent production ready with automatic provider failover, queued background jobs, and middleware for logging, rate limiting, and cost tracking.

Harris Raftopoulos

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Conference/Talk optimising-for-developer-efficiency.on-forge.com

Optimising Workflows & Shipping to Production

If you weren't lucky enough to attend Laravel Live UK this year you missed a great talk by Ryan Chandler. Luckily enough hes made the slides available for us to read, so if you want to find out how to reduce the friction when getting code to production then the sliders are worth a read through.

Ryan Chandler

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Blog Post PHP Internals juststeveking.com

The Polling API Is the Most Underrated RFC PHP Has Shipped in Years

An in-depth look at PHP 8.6's Polling API RFC, explaining how it provides native access to high-performance I/O multiplexing mechanisms like epoll and kqueue, finally bringing PHP's async capabilities in line with modern runtimes like Node.js and Go.

Steve McDougall

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Blog Post dev.to

bcrypt and Laravel: 72 Bytes, Not 72 Characters

A detailed exploration of bcrypt's 72-byte password limit and how it affects multi-byte character sets like Cyrillic, CJK, and emoji in Laravel applications. The article explains how Laravel's character-based validation can inadvertently allow passwords that get truncated or corrupted by bcrypt's byte-based limit, potentially locking users out.

Ivan Mykhavko

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Blog Post Laravel Cloud laravel.com

How Sportmonks Handles 600M API Requests/Week on Laravel Cloud

Sportmonks migrated 12 applications to Laravel Cloud, now serving 600 million API requests per week with zero infrastructure failures. The sports data API company went from constant weekend check-ins and recurring downtime to 99.9% uptime and autoscaling that handles 1,000+ jobs per second during live matches.

Laravel

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