Trunk-Based Development sounds simple. No long-lived branches.Frequent merges.Small, incremental changes. Most teams will tell you: “Yeah, we basically do trunk-based development.” In practice, they don’t. What they usually have is a hybrid that keeps the downsides of feature branches —…
Laravel RefreshDatabase vs DatabaseTransactions is one of the most common sources of confusion when writing tests in Laravel. Choosing the wrong approach can lead to flaky tests, hidden bugs, and unreliable results. When writing tests in Laravel, database state can…
In 2026, the biggest performance gains in PHP don’t come from micro-optimizations—they come from I/O strategy. Legacy PHP codebases (5–10 years old) are overwhelmingly synchronous and blocking. Refactoring them toward concurrency—using Fibers with an event loop like Revolt, Amp, or…