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Your Laravel app is probably slow because of database queries. Mine was too. Here's everything I learned fixing it.

Writing tests feels like a chore until it saves you from a production bug. Here's how to test effectively without going overboard.

Skip the outdated tutorials. Here's how to configure a PHP development setup that actually works, with all the modern tooling you'll need.

Stop fighting with local environments. Docker makes PHP development consistent across any machine.

Stop making users wait. Push slow tasks to the background.

Simple token authentication for SPAs and mobile apps.

Handle uploads properly - validation, storage, and serving files securely.

Decouple your code with events. Clean, testable, and maintainable.

Practical patterns you'll actually use, not academic exercises.