Explore how Laravel Octane accelerates request handling by pre-loading the application, akin to chefs preparing ingredients before rush hour.

Ever thought about creating your own AI experiment? Regardless of your current expertise, Alex Garrett-Smith has launched a free course on building an AI chatbot from scratch. This course teaches you how to use wire:stream with Livewire to stream ChatGPT responses in real-time, maintaining a dynamic chat history that remembers the context of the conversation.

Understand how to save processing time from subsequent calls to a heavy operation by caching the result in memory for the duration of the current request using the once function.

The latest Laravel update introduces several enhancements. Highlights include the new Rule::array() method for more intuitive array key validations and the addition of ->whereJsonOverlaps() for MySQL, which allows for more flexible JSON queries.

Did you know that the dd() helper stands for "Dump and Die"? This convenient function is not only available as a global helper but is also implemented in many Laravel classes. These include Request, query Builder, Collection, TestResponse, Stringable, and more, allowing for easy debugging right within these contexts.

A developer shares an in-depth optimization journey for a PHP application, highlighting server downscaling and performance gains through PHP-FPM and OPCache adjustments.

This PHP RFC proposes to allow accessing class members directly after instantiation without requiring parentheses: new MyClass()->method().

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.3.7 and 8.2.19. This is a bug fix release.

Do you prefer UUIDs/ULIDs for security but still want autoincrement internal IDs? This Spatie package effortlessly integrates Stripe-like IDs into your app, combining the best of both worlds and making it easy to create contextualized IDs like user_fj39fj3lsmxlsl.

Anyone who has ever tried to implement custom domains for their apps knows it can be a daunting task. In this enlightening video, Sabatino Masala demonstrates an accessible approach to setting up custom domains. Using Ceryx, a programmable reverse proxy, he simplifies the automation of routing and SSL certificate management. This method enables even non-technical users to manage custom domains effortlessly.

In this article Nicolas Fränkel explains how the Vary HTTP header can refine web caching by allowing caches to differentiate responses not just by URL, but also by headers such as 'Accept' and 'Accept-Language'

Learn how Stripe tackles the double payment issue by implementing an idempotent API, ensuring that even if a request is repeated, it's processed only once, using unique UUIDs as idempotency keys.