Technology

Laravel

The core framework for web applications and APIs: Eloquent, queues, events, policies and a well-thought-out architecture.

About the technology

Laravel has been my main framework for building web applications and APIs for eight years, and I know it both from the perspective of rapid product development and from operating it under real load. The framework offers expressive syntax and a powerful ecosystem, but its true value is revealed when you use it deliberately. I build applications around thin controllers and dedicated service classes, move business logic out of controllers into action classes and domain services, use Form Requests to validate input, and Policies/Gates to authorize every state-changing action on a deny-by-default basis. I use Eloquent ORM carefully: I design relationships thoughtfully, use eager loading via with() to fight the N+1 problem, move heavy queries into query objects, and when needed drop down to the query builder without losing the safety of bound parameters. Database- and Redis-based queues, deferred and recurring tasks via the scheduler, events and listeners let me move heavy and external work out of the request cycle. I make jobs idempotent and designed for retries (--tries), and protect them from double execution with unique keys and status checks. For real-time features I use broadcasting and WebSocket servers, and for caching, tags and well-thought-out invalidation. I pay great attention to tests: I write feature and unit tests, use factories and seeders for reproducible data, run the suite on in-memory SQLite for speed and on PostgreSQL for production compatibility. I keep migrations strictly incremental and forward-only, aligning the schema with model casts and fillable. I especially value the ecosystem tools: Horizon for queue monitoring, Telescope for debugging, Sanctum and Passport for API authentication, Octane for resident mode. Laravel in my hands is not magic but a predictable, testable and scalable framework on which it is comfortable to grow a product and a team without accumulating technical debt.

Experience

8 years in production

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