Joel Butcher
Full Stack Laravel Developer and Open Source Maintainer
Joel Butcher
Full Stack Laravel Developer and Open Source Maintainer
February 19th, 2025 — 🚀 Caching boosts performance, but a bad strategy leads to stale data, stampedes & invalidation woes! 😬 Learn to dodge these pitfalls & cache smarter! 🧠
February 9th, 2025 — Eloquent is great, but raw SQL can be faster & more flexible ⚡. Learn when to use raw queries in Laravel & how to do it safely! 🛡️
February 7th, 2025 — Tired of slow, brittle tests in Laravel? The repository pattern can help! Learn how to decouple your tests from the database, speed up execution, and write cleaner, more maintainable code. 🚀
December 8th, 2020 — Earlier today I officially released the first version of Socialstream, a simple Laravel package that integrates Laravel Socialite with the scaffolding provided by Laravel Jetstream.