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PHP Container Best Practices: Alpine Images, Multi-Stage & OCI Labels

01May 5, 2026 · 13 min readTooling

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PHP Container Best Practices: Alpine Images, Multi-Stage

Build lean PHP containers with tested Alpine runtimes, multi-stage Dockerfiles, non-root execution, OCI labels, and health checks.

PHP
Docker
Containers
Tooling
DevOps

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Newest production notes across Laravel, PHP, databases, security, performance, debugging, and release work.

11May 3, 2026 · 19 min readCore PHP

Generics in PHP: Current Workarounds and What the Future

Explores PHP's current lack of runtime generics: PHPDoc template annotations, Psalm and PHPStan generics, and the current RFC landscape.

PHP
Generics
PHPStan
Psalm

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12May 3, 2026 · 10 min readPHP

PHP 8.5 Property Hooks in Laravel

A practical guide to PHP 8.5 property hooks in Laravel, including safe use cases, Eloquent boundaries, DTO patterns, and SEO-friendly examples.

PHP 8.5
Laravel
Eloquent
Architecture

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13May 1, 2026 · 13 min readTooling

PHP Webhooks With Filament: Admin Panels and Webhook

Builds a Filament v3 admin panel with a webhook log viewer, retry controls, and signature verification status dashboard.

PHP
Laravel
Filament
Webhooks

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14April 30, 2026 · 19 min readLaravel

Laravel Pulse: Real-Time Application Monitoring Dashboard

Practical guide to Laravel Pulse: setting up, configuring recorders, creating custom cards, and interpreting performance metrics.

Laravel
Pulse
Monitoring
Performance

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15April 30, 2026 · 13 min readDatabase

Laravel Schema Sentinel Turns Schema Drift into a CI

A production guide to Laravel Schema Sentinel, schema drift detection, strict checks, generated fixes, CI gates, admin health checks, and release workflows.

Laravel
Database
Migrations
CI

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16April 28, 2026 · 17 min readPerformance

PHP Benchmarking 101: phpbench, Xdebug Profiler & Flame

Introduces phpbench for micro-benchmarks, Xdebug callgrind output, and flame graph visualization for identifying hot paths.

PHP
Benchmarking
Performance
Xdebug

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17April 25, 2026 · 16 min readSecurity

Environment Configuration in PHP: .env Files, Secrets

Best practices for managing config - dotenv libraries, secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, and runtime injection in containers.

PHP
Environment Configuration
Secrets
Vault

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18April 25, 2026 · 10 min readArchitecture

Laravel 13 Multi-tenancy in Production

A production Laravel 13 multi-tenancy guide covering database isolation, tenant routing, queues, analytics, security, and SEO-safe tenant pages.

Laravel 13
SaaS
Multi-tenancy
PostgreSQL

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Archive overview

Built for search, readers, and future debugging.

Production contextArticles focus on live-application problems: slow queries, fragile releases, unclear ownership, failed jobs, admin workflow friction, and code paths that are hard to review.
Implementation detailThe archive favors concrete Laravel and PHP decisions: Eloquent, Blade, queues, Filament, testing, security, structured data, deployment checks, and operational cleanup.
Discovery surfaceEvery listing keeps a stable URL, excerpt, date, reading time, local responsive image, category, tags, RSS entry, sitemap entry, and local search-index data.