PHP and Laravel
Laravel in anger: queues, webhooks, multi-tenancy and the parts of PHP people forget got good.
PHP has been quietly excellent for years and Laravel is the reason a lot of small teams ship at all. These are the things I keep reaching for on Laravel engagements.
5 posts on this.
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Building a Robust Webhook System in Laravel
Sending events to other people's systems and coping when they are down.
Everything on this topic
- Creating Your First Laravel Package Pulling the code you keep copying between projects into something reusable.
- Building Real-time Features with Laravel Reverb First-party WebSockets in Laravel, without reaching for a third party.
- Building Multi-Tenant SaaS with Laravel One codebase serving many customers without their data getting mixed up.
- Building Custom Artisan Commands in Laravel Moving the tedious jobs into the CLI, where they were always meant to live.
- Building a Robust Webhook System in Laravel Sending events to other people's systems and coping when they are down.
Available for rescue and re-platforming work
I take over platforms that already exist and are in trouble. Node, TypeScript, React and Laravel, mostly in regulated or high-traffic environments. If something needs rescuing, re-platforming or finishing, my full history is on the CV.