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Debounceable jobs, Pest sharding, and API starter kits
Episode 257 surveys a wide range of Laravel and developer tooling updates. It covers Laravel 13.5–13.6 features (debounce for cued jobs, health-check JSON routes, JSON-formatted logs, Cloudflare email, enum support across managers), Pest 4.5/4.6 improvements (flaky-test handling, time-based sharding), and new tooling for testing, architecture checks, and AI-friendly enhancements (geo profiles, vector storage, and Paperdoc/Paperdo integrations). The hosts also discuss practical tips for CI, shard timing, and staying secure with Composer self-update and vulnerability notes.
The first official Laravel Meetup in Georgia
Two guests discuss Redberry hosting Georgia's first Laravel meetup, covering the event details, speakers, venue, language, and future plans for sustaining a local Laravel community.
Mastering Laravel Caching: A Case Study with Laravel News
The video walks through making a dynamic Laravel news site cacheable by refactoring Livewire components to blade, adding server-side caching, and wiring in Cloudflare edge caching, including testing, deployment, and observing results while promoting a new course on caching techniques.
RAG with Embeddings and pgvector in Laravel 13 - Ship AI with Laravel EP5
The video demonstrates building a semantic search-powered knowledge base in Laravel 13 using embeddings and Postgres vector support. It covers creating a KnowledgeArticle model, migrations, seed data, generating embeddings, implementing a vector-based search, wiring a support KB test route, and enabling a knowledge-base-driven agent that answers customer queries without guessing. Key points include embedding basics, how semantic search differs from keyword search, indexing for fast lookups, and guiding the agent to rely on the knowledge base rather than hallucinating.
Laravel 13.4, Cloud CLI, AI Agents & Axios Hack — Laravel News Podcast 256
The episode covers a broad slate of Laravel and PHP ecosystem updates, including Laravel 13.x refinements (unit test attributes, route resolution, and new testing and debugging aids), editor tooling (VS Code extension, PHPStorm support), and new packages and features (Laravel Cloud, Passage API proxy, JSON viewing tools, and Laravel 13.4 changes). It also touches on security news (Axios supply-chain incident), community developments (Laravel Foundation and Laracon US), and a fan-friendly sweep of quick tips and project spotlights.
Your AI Agent Has Amnesia. Let's Fix It. - Ship AI with Laravel EP4
The video shows how to add memory so a support agent can handle multi-turn chats with real data by persisting conversations and context across messages. It covers introducing a remembers_conversations trait, creating chat-related routes and a controller, and managing a conversation ID to maintain context across user messages.
Matt Stauffer on Shaping the Future of PHP Through the Foundation
Matt discusses joining the PHP Foundation board and the potential impact for Laravel and the broader PHP ecosystem. He explains the Foundation’s role in funding, guidance, and bridging gaps between PHP internals, Laravel, and the wider community, as well as questions around executive director duties, board structure, and how contributors can engage or support the Foundation.
Deploy a Laravel App in Under 5 Minutes (Laravel Cloud CLI)
The video shows deploying a brand new Laravel project to Laravel Cloud in under five minutes, using an automated flow from project setup to live site launch and a quick tour of the accompanying docs.
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