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Structuring a Laravel project past the default folders
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Structuring a Laravel project past the default folders

Every Laravel project starts the same way. You run laravel new, get app/Models, app/Http/Controllers, and a handful of service providers, and it feels tidy. Six months later that controller is 400 lines, the same validation lives in three places, and nobody remembers where the invoice total gets recalculated. The framework did not f ...

By BrainSoft  |  5 20 September 2026
When a slow third-party API becomes your actual bottleneck
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When a slow third-party API becomes your actual bottleneck

You’ve tuned your database, added indexes, scaled your servers, and yet response times are still terrible. If your application depends on an external API, that service might be the real bottleneck. Third-party APIs are outside your control, but they don’t have to sink your performance. This post explains how to confirm a slow external API i ...

By BrainSoft  |  5 19 September 2026
Designing a webhook endpoint that survives bad input
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Designing a webhook endpoint that survives bad input

Every webhook endpoint I have written eventually receives something it did not expect. A truncated JSON body. A signature computed over different bytes than the ones that arrived. A 40 MB payload from a provider that decided to batch a year of events into one POST. The endpoint that handles the happy path is easy; the one that survives the garbage is the one you actually ...

By BrainSoft  |  5 17 September 2026