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Laravel structure for a scalable monolith

Most apps I build are monoliths, and they hold up fine. The trick is not microservices, it is keeping one Laravel app organized: thin controllers, one class per job, slow work in queues, and an eye on the database.
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How I use string enums in Laravel

A typo between 'complete' and 'completed' lived in production for two weeks. Since then every status is a string enum: cast on the model, validated with Rule::enum, with its labels, colors and rules inside it.
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Rate limiting in Laravel: we built it ourselves, then Laravel shipped it

We needed limits per minute, per hour and per day, so we wrote a middleware with three cache counters. It had a race, wrong headers and a day that reset at 3:47 PM. Laravel's RateLimiter does all of it in three lines.
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I wrote a rate limiter Laravel already had

A 190-line class with three windows, tests and hand-built headers, for an app on Laravel 8.83. Limit::perHour and perDay had been in vendor/ since 2020, and a named limiter can return all three at once.
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Stopping a cache stampede in Laravel

What happens when a hot cache key expires on a busy site, and two small fixes: an atomic lock so one request rebuilds, and serving stale data so nobody waits.
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Preventing race conditions with atomic locks in Laravel

Two requests, one seat, two owners: how the check-then-write gap bites, and when to reach for Cache::lock versus lockForUpdate.
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