Practical articles on Laravel, backend architecture, payment integrations and APIs, written from production experience, not theory.
Let Claude and ChatGPT work inside your Laravel app without giving them admin rights: OAuth per user, your existing policies in every tool, hidden tools, confirmations for destructive actions, and an audit log. Tested code.
Puzzles and take-homes now measure what AI does for free. A four-stage interview loop that tests judgment instead, with a scoring rubric, a flawed pull request with an answer key, and a debugging script.
10 units in stock, 100 buyers at the same moment. The usual "check, then save" code sold 100. Here is how a conditional UPDATE, row locks and stock reservations fix it, tested with real parallel requests.
A customer taps Pay, the network drops, the app retries, and the card is charged twice. Here is how to make payment retries safe in Laravel and MySQL, tested with 50 simultaneous requests.
AI can ship your code without teaching you anything. A 12-week roadmap for learning backend development with AI as a tutor, not a crutch, with prompts, projects, exercises and a self-assessment rubric.
Build a payment webhook endpoint in Laravel that verifies HMAC signatures, acks fast, survives retries and duplicates, and processes events safely with queues and MySQL.
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