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Blog Post usefathom.com

Two database migrations and a divorce

Jack Ellis shares the story of Fathom's most challenging database migration, moving 65 billion rows whilst eliminating technical debt and solving the problem of tracking unique visitors without cookies in a privacy-first way.

Jack Ellis

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Blog Post laravel-news.com

First-Party Image Processing in Laravel 13.20

Laravel 13.20.0 adds first-party image processing to the framework, with an immutable, driver-based API for transforming images that come from uploads, storage, URLs, or raw bytes.

Paul Redmond

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YouTube Video youtube.com

This Week In PHP Internals | July 15, 2026

A brand-new class extension proposal rewrote itself mid-thread, the Deprecations RFC froze with ballots set for July 27, function autoloading split off a prerequisite RFC overnight, Duration picked up its first declared no on the eve of its vote, and a JSX-flavored markup RFC landed hours before recording.

Len Woodward

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YouTube Video youtube.com

PHP needs structs, what do you think?

Structs, do we need them in PHP. Does the new Primary Constructors RFC take things a bit to far and should we strip back and bring in Structs Brent gives his thoughts on this.

Brent Roose

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Blog Post richdynamix.com

Laravel Zero-Downtime Migrations: Expand and Contract Pattern

Steven demonstrates an interesting approach to zero-downtime database migrations in this post. Using the Expand and Contract Pattern. This isn't a pattern I've seen before but looking at the approach it makes sense and does help handle some of those issues that come with certain migrations that you might need to do that change data in your databases.

Steven Richardson

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Blog Post medium.com

I Spent My First Day on a New Laravel Project Fixing Migrations an AI Wrote

In this post Pratik shows us how sometimes letting AI have full control and not checking its fixes can cause problems when new developers have to setup the project for the first time.

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Blog Post leuver.ink

Host Any Laravel Website Free on GitHub Pages

A practical guide to deploying Laravel applications as static sites on GitHub Pages for free. Learn how to use Laravel's familiar tooling to generate static HTML, avoiding the need to learn separate static site generators whilst maintaining the full Laravel developer experience.

Willem Leuverink

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Blog Post laravel-news.com

Laravel Legacy Bridge: Carry Authenticated Sessions from a Legacy App into Laravel

Have you ever had to migrate an application from a different PHP framework such as CodeIgniter or CakePHP and wondered how do we handle session authentication. Well this package by Chris Keller could be just the package for you.

Yannick L.

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Blog Post wendelladriel.com

The Laravel Scheduler Under the Hood

A comprehensive deep dive into how Laravel's Scheduler works internally, exploring how scheduled tasks move from definition to execution, including cron expressions, locks, background execution, and sub-minute scheduling. Essential reading for Laravel developers who want to understand the mechanics behind Schedule::command() and build reliable production task scheduling.

Wendell Adriel

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Blog Post tomasvotruba.com

How I use Agents to Extract Hidden Feedback from Github and Improved Rector

Tomas Votruba explains how he's used AI agents to automatically identify and fix bugs in Rector by analysing skipped rules in configuration files. The article details his practical approach to leveraging AI for extracting hidden feedback from open-source projects and improving code quality tooling.

Tomas Votruba

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