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Jul 202613 min read
Architecture

Strangling Procedural Legacy PHP into Laravel

Replace a procedural PHP monolith with Laravel one route at a time. Nginx ingress, session bridging that actually works, and Eloquent on a legacy schema.

Jul 20265 min read
Shipping & Tooling

Give your Laravel AI agent real-time web knowledge

The Laravel AI SDK is provider-agnostic, but its built-in web tools aren't. Here's how to give your agent real-time web knowledge without losing that independence.

Jun 202613 min read
API Design

The Tips Behind API Artisan: Building Laravel APIs Developers Actually Want to Use

Practical tips for building Laravel APIs developers trust: contract-first design, versioning, RFC 9457 errors, idempotency and more. Free book inside.

Jun 20269 min read
PHP & Laravel

Testing Actions, Not Mocks

Mocking your own Actions tests the wiring, not the behaviour. How I test Laravel Action classes for real with Pest, and where fakes still belong.

May 202610 min read
API Design

Server-Side Rate Limiting in Laravel with Fingerprint.dev

Learn how to build device-based rate limiting in Laravel with Fingerprint.dev, Redis caching, and custom middleware to avoid the limits of IP-based throttling.

May 202619 min read
Architecture

The Art Of Keeping Business Logic Honest

Use state machines and workflow engines in Laravel to keep business rules explicit, auditable, and resilient across async processes.

May 20267 min read
Engineering Leadership

Thinking In Layers

Use layered thinking to place logic in the right part of your application before it turns into a mess.

May 202610 min read
API Design

When CRUD Isn't Enough: How Real APIs Outgrow Their Design

Most Laravel APIs start as clean CRUD systems. This article walks through why that breaks down, and how an action-based design fixes the mess.

Apr 202610 min read
API Design

Building Modern Laravel APIs: Lead Scoring and Prioritisation

Building a configurable lead scoring engine in Laravel 13 - config-driven weights, query objects for prioritised retrieval, rescoring commands, and a top leads endpoint.

Apr 20269 min read
API Design

Building Modern Laravel APIs: The Action Pattern

Building a lead enrichment and scoring pipeline in Laravel 13 using the AI SDK, structured agents, composable Action classes, and PHP enums for type-safe status management.

Apr 20268 min read
API Design

Building Modern Laravel APIs: Authentication with JWT

Add JWT auth to a Laravel API with register, login, refresh, and logout flows using Form Request DTOs, Action classes, and auth:api middleware.

Apr 202610 min read
API Design

Building Modern Laravel APIs: Foundations and Project Structure

Start the Modern Laravel APIs series by structuring Pulse-Link for production with clear layers, ULIDs, action classes, DTO requests, and versioning.