Your test suite passes. CI is green. Everyone merges their pull requests with confidence. Then a seemingly harmless refactor breaks production. If that sounds familiar, the problem isn’t always a lack of tests. Sometimes it’s the quality of those tests.…
Most Laravel applications do not become difficult to maintain because somebody made one obviously terrible architectural decision. They get there through dozens of small decisions that looked completely reasonable at the time. A controller grows beyond a comfortable size, so…
Most developers treat merge conflicts as a Git problem. Git tells you that two people changed the same code, highlights the conflicting lines, and leaves you to sort it out. After a few minutes of editing, you commit the resolution…