cosmastech

I used to love programming.

My team and I have been working on building a light observability layer around an important API in our Laravel app.

With the release of Laravel 12.48.0, you can now specify which flags you want to use when decoding an HTTP response from the HTTP client.

Simplicity matters.

As 2025 wraps up, I wanted to touch on some broader topics that I thought deeply about this year.

Laravel 8 first introduced HTTP request pooling, thanks to a contribution from Andrea Marco Sartori.

I recently started a new job and was given my first exposure to a modular monolith.

Route Middleware is a way to execute code before a request is handled by a controller.

When I began building a new product in Laravel last year, I wanted a lot of things: good test coverage, type-safety, a high PHPStan level, and for some reason, to write the project like I was still working on Java Spring Boot microservices.

The Problem We have a queued job that grabs data from the database and performs some checks.