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A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.

PIE's creator James Titcumb shows of PIE.

Laravel 8 first introduced HTTP request pooling, thanks to a contribution from Andrea Marco Sartori. This allows developers to write code which will execute any number of HTTP requests concurrently. Under the hood, this is made possible thanks to the ...

Imagine your team wants to bring AI into their workflow to automate routine tasks, extract insights from data, assist with content creation, or improve customer support. Smart move!

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, I'll have a look at how to use flexible caching in Laravel. A great way to avoid unhappy users who'll hit invalid cache.

While parameterized queries are the preferred method, sole() adds an extra layer of protection when using raw queries, especially when only one record should match.

Mattias shares his insights into what we saw during the outage and our lessons learned.

PHP 8.5 includes the pipe operator, clone with, a new URI parser, and more.

Using Laravel's new traits, WithCachedRoutes and WithCachedConfig, you can significantly reducing test run times.

In his talk at Wire:Live talk, Filip Ganyicz explores Bond, a new approach that brings the capabilities of modern JavaScript into your Blade views.