Posts tagged ‘laravel’

Building an MCP Server in Laravel: Let AI Agents Talk to Your App Safely

Build an MCP server in Laravel with the official laravel/mcp package: tools, resources, prompts, Sanctum authentication, per-tool policies, rate limiting, audit logging, Pest tests, and production deployment. A security-first walkthrough from the Deploynix team.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 09, 2026 · 22 min read

Laravel Reverb's New Database Driver: Real-Time WebSockets Without Redis

Laravel 13 added a database scaling driver to Reverb, so you can run multi-process WebSockets without Redis. We cover how it works, when to use it, and the full production setup: Supervisor, Nginx TLS, file descriptors, and monitoring.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 03, 2026 · 20 min read

Laravel 13's First-Party JSON:API Support: Standards-Compliant APIs Without Packages

Laravel 13 ships first-party JSON:API support: resource classes that handle serialization, sparse fieldsets, relationship inclusion, and pagination links automatically. Here's how the new classes work, when to migrate from classic API Resources, and how to run a compliant API in production.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 02, 2026 · 21 min read

You Don't Need Kubernetes for Your Laravel App

A team of 8 spent 60 hours a week maintaining Kubernetes before moving to Docker Compose. For Laravel apps, the case against k8s is even stronger. Here's the boring architecture that actually works, and the rare cases where k8s earns its keep.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 16, 2026 · 14 min read

Deploying AI-Powered Laravel Apps: Queues, Streaming, Timeouts

LLM calls run 30-120 seconds and break every default your Laravel server ships with. Queue and Horizon configuration, Nginx streaming, end-to-end timeout budgets, retry safety, and cost tracking for AI workloads in production.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 16, 2026 · 16 min read

SQLite in Production for Laravel: When One File Wins

The honest guide to running SQLite in production for Laravel: the WAL config that matters, backups that don't corrupt, Litestream replication, the atomic-deploy gotcha, and the signals that it's time to move to MySQL or Postgres.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 15, 2026 · 14 min read

Laravel Cloud's $5 Plan vs a $5 VPS: The Real Cost Math

Laravel Cloud's new $5 Starter tier with scale-to-zero hibernation sounds like it kills the $5 VPS. We run the honest 12-month cost math for a real Laravel app, queues, scheduler, database and all, and show exactly where each option wins.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 14, 2026 · 13 min read

Managing Servers Across 6 Cloud Providers From One Dashboard

How Deploynix lets you manage servers across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Hetzner, Linode, AWS, and custom providers from a single unified dashboard.

Sameh Elhawary · Mar 30, 2026 · 11 min read

Zero-Downtime Laravel Deployment: How It Actually Works

How zero-downtime deployment works for Laravel: atomic symlinks, shared storage, graceful PHP-FPM reloads, and instant rollback. No dropped requests during deploy — here's the full mechanism.

Sameh Elhawary · Mar 27, 2026 · 11 min read

Laravel Deployment in 2026: 12 Practices That Matter

The 2026 Laravel deployment playbook: 12 modern practices (and 5 outdated habits to drop). Covers zero-downtime deploys, Horizon, OPcache, queue workers, and production SSL. With real configs.

Sameh Elhawary · Mar 26, 2026 · 10 min read

Why We Built Deploynix: A Laravel-First Server Management Platform

The origin story behind Deploynix — why we built a Laravel-first server management platform and what makes it different from existing tools.

Sameh Elhawary · Mar 25, 2026 · 9 min read

Deploying a Laravel API + Separate Frontend (Next.js, Nuxt, SPA) on Deploynix

Learn how to deploy a Laravel API backend alongside a separate frontend like Next.js, Nuxt, or an SPA on Deploynix with proper CORS, auth, and coordination.

Sameh Elhawary · Mar 25, 2026 · 11 min read