From the workshop: notes, patterns and lessons from projects building custom business software. No marketing, just what we actually learned. Written in English so everyone can read along.
How we added an AI chat assistant and a hosted MCP server to SimpleStats using laravel/ai and laravel/mcp, with one set of tool classes powering both. Includes the architecture, the streaming setup, and the gotchas that cost us real debugging time.
Less press release, more behind the scenes: the real steps to becoming a Laravel Partner, from the intro call and reference checks to the sales-profile questions, and what the whole thing made us realize about ourselves.
How to set up Pest 4.6's time-based shard distribution in Bitbucket Pipelines, including the gotchas around composer plugins, root permissions, and the missing matrix feature.
The User model is not special. Any Eloquent model can extend Authenticatable, issue Sanctum tokens, and resolve as auth()->user() behind auth:sanctum. A pattern that fits surprisingly well whenever the API client is a Project, an Organization, or a device rather than a human.
Running SQLite on a Laravel Forge site with zero-downtime deployments? Every deploy quietly throws your entire production database away. Here is why it happens and how to fix it by moving the database into the shared storage directory.
