Marcelo Nizato 
Your checkout works. Your queues are processing jobs. Your payment integration has timeouts, and your webhook handler rejects duplicate events. Then a critical security advisory arrives for PHP itself. Suddenly, the questions change. Which servers are affected? Can you update them today? Will the deployment interrupt payments? How will you know every running instance received … Read more
Imagine your online store calls an external payment API every time a customer places an order. One day the payment provider gets slow and takes 30 seconds, or more, to respond. Without a timeout, your app just waits. Each waiting request holds a PHP worker. Your server only has a limited number of workers, so … Read more
A third-party service becomes unavailable. An API changes its response. A network connection disappears. A webhook arrives twice. A service returns an unexpected error. These things happen. And when they happen, your software needs to know what to do. Building software that keeps working If you work with PHP and Laravel, you probably build applications, … Read more
You want to start a Laravel project. Before writing your first feature, you need to set up PHP, extensions, Composer, and a database. When you work on multiple projects, this setup becomes more complicated: each application may require different versions and configurations. Docker helps organize these dependencies into containers. And Laravel Sail provides a simple … Read more
You want Laravel to handle your API and Vue to handle the user interface. Keeping them in separate projects gives each application its own dependencies, source code, and build process. But it introduces a few questions: how do the containers communicate? Which address should the browser use? And where should you run npm commands? In … Read more
