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Explore the stories, insights, and expert advice behind Sevalla's PaaS solutions, featuring the Sevalla team and occasional guest contributors from the industry.
The overlooked Git feature every Laravel developer should be using
Stop stashing, reinstalling dependencies, and rebuilding assets every time you switch branches. Git worktrees let you maintain multiple isolated Laravel environments simultaneously, eliminating context-switching friction.
·by Steve McDougallThe Object Design Style Guide for PHP 8.5 - Discipline without friction
Matthias Noback's Object Design Style Guide principles remain sound, but PHP 8.5 has absorbed these patterns directly into its syntax. What required ceremony now happens by default.
·by Steve McDougallHeroku maintenance mode - what production teams should know
Heroku is moving into maintenance mode under a sustaining engineering model. Here's what it means for production teams and how to evaluate your options.
·by Kevin DownsThe pattern-first trap
PHP 8.4 and 8.5 give us property hooks, enums, match expressions, and the pipe operator. Here's why these features make many classic design patterns unnecessary, and what to use instead.
·by Steve McDougallBuilding a lightweight alternative to Laravel Sail
Learn how to build your own container orchestration tool for Laravel that works with both Docker and Podman, using Alpine Linux and FrankenPHP.
·by Steve McDougall