Design Patterns That Earn Their Place
Patterns are useful when they remove pressure from business code, not when they decorate it.
Design Patterns
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Repository Pattern in Laravel: When It Helps and When It Hurts
A grounded view of repositories in Laravel, Eloquent, testing, and domain boundaries.
Strategy Pattern for Pricing, Payments, and Notifications
Replacing condition-heavy code with explicit swappable behavior.
Factory Pattern Without Making Laravel Weird
Using factories when creation rules are real, not just to satisfy a pattern checklist.
Observer, Events, and Side Effects
How to use events for separation without making behavior impossible to trace.
Adapter Pattern for Third-Party APIs
Protecting business code from payment, SMS, CRM, and external service changes.