Critical PHP Security Release Coming Tomorrow (October 21)
The PHP security team will ship a release on October 21, 2026 at 14:00 UTC that fixes two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSS 9.2. Plan your upgrade now. The post Critical…
Reading
Articles I found worth reading, with a short note on each.
5 Event Driven Architecture Problems (And How to Avoid Them)
“We switched to event driven architecture. Now we can’t debug anything.” A member of my channel shared a post with me where a team went all in on event driven architecture and ran…
It's like 10,000 streams when what you need is a queue by Chris Simon - DDD Europe 2026
Domain-Driven Design Europe 2026 - Organised by Aardling (https://aardling.eu/)https://dddeurope.comhttps://newsletter.dddeurope.com/ https://www.linkedin.co...
Automating Spec to PR with Mastra AI
I replaced my home-rolled agent workflow engine with Mastra. Here's what I've learned so far.
Fluent Rule Builders for All Laravel Validation Rules
Laravel 13.36 adds Rule:: methods for required_with, accepted_if, url, uuid, distinct, and the other string-only validation rules, with IDE autocompletion. The post Fluent Rule…
DDD Europe 2026 wrap up
Listen to the feedback of participants and speakers and join us again in 2027 in Amsterdam: https://2027.dddeurope.com/
Models Beyond Diagrams by Stijn Vannieuwenhuyse - DDD Europe 2026
Domain-Driven Design Europe 2026 - Organised by Aardling (https://aardling.eu/)https://dddeurope.comhttps://newsletter.dddeurope.com/ https://www.linkedin.co...
Architecting for uncertainty - part 4: Team Topologies organizes for fast flow
This is the fourth in a series of articles based on my talk Architecting for Fast Flow: Thriving Amid Uncertainty. In this series, I define the term fast flow and explain why it…
Rust/Go Leverage in PHP
In the previous post we looked at how Rust's speed of static analysis opened the door for non-PHP languages to analyze PHP codebases. What influence did it bring upon the PHP…
Laravel URL AI Transformer: Extract Structured Data From URLs
Spatie's Laravel URL AI Transformer fetches web pages, runs them through Laravel AI agents, and stores JSON-LD, summaries, or schema-validated data. The post Laravel URL AI…
