backend development

A pragmatic folder split for Laravel that keeps Eloquent at the boundary, respects dependency direction, and avoids over-engineering small CRUD apps.

The pieces that keep a Laravel API clean and safe: form requests for validation, API resources for a consistent response shape, and throttling to protect public endpoints.

A slow Laravel endpoint is almost never a slow server. Here is how to read EXPLAIN, order composite index columns correctly, add covering indexes and index foreign keys without slowing your writes down.