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pest June 7th, 2026

GitHub Actions + Pest Sharding — Cut Laravel CI from 12 Minutes to 3

Split your Pest suite across four GitHub Actions matrix jobs, balance them by real execution time, and gate merges on a single status check.

8 min read →
devops April 22nd, 2026

GitHub Actions Matrix Testing for Laravel: PHP × Database Combos

Stop testing against one PHP version and one database. Here's the copy-paste GitHub Actions matrix workflow that covers PHP 8.2–8.4 against MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite in one go.

6 min read →
docker March 29th, 2026

Optimising Laravel Docker images with multi-stage builds

A single-stage Dockerfile for Laravel ends up with 800 MB+ images full of build tools you don't need in production. Multi-stage builds fix that: here's how.

7 min read →
laravel March 21st, 2026

Zero-Downtime Laravel Deployments with GitHub Actions and Forge

Stop manually triggering Forge deploys. Here's how to wire GitHub Actions to Forge's deploy webhook so every push to main ships automatically: without downtime.

6 min read →
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