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PHP · 1h ago · 1 min readLaravelYour Laravel queue workers keep 8 copies of your app in memory
Each Laravel queue worker and Horizon supervisor loads its own copy of your app, which quickly eats memory on small servers. A package called queue-prefork tries to fix this by sharing opcache across forked workers.
Laravel · 9h ago · 1 min readLaravelUUID Request Input and Migration Failure Events in Laravel 13.42
Laravel 13.42 brings new UUID and ULID input helpers, a migration failure event, skip reasons for scheduled tasks, and a way to compare URL origins.
Laravel · 21h ago · 1 min readPHPRebuilding Resend's PHP SDK
The author rebuilt part of Resend's official PHP SDK on sdk-toolbox and tested both versions against identical failure cases. The rebuild copes with errors better, but the official SDK is still the more practical choice.
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