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laravel September 4th, 2026

Laravel Read Replicas: Route Reads to a Follower Without Serving Stale Data

The read/write split is four lines of config. The read-after-write bugs that turn up a fortnight later are the actual work — and sticky only covers one of them.

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laravel August 28th, 2026

Run Laravel Behind PgBouncer in Transaction Mode Without Breaking Booleans

PgBouncer's transaction mode breaks PDO prepared statements, and the classic emulated-prepares workaround then breaks your boolean columns. Laravel 13.17 fixes both properly.

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laravel July 17th, 2026

Auto-Delete Stale Records with Laravel's Prunable Trait

Some tables only ever grow. Here's how Laravel's Prunable trait deletes stale rows on a schedule — safely, in chunks, with a hook for cleaning up related files.

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