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QUEUES / 7 MIN

Why your job can't find the model it was dispatched with

You dispatch a job with an Eloquent model, it runs an hour later, and it throws a ModelNotFoundException — because the record was deleted in between. Here's how model serialization in queued jobs actually works, and the assumptions it's easy to get wrong.

Sep 1, 2026

ELOQUENT / 7 MIN

Soft deletes: the gotchas that don't show up until production

A soft-deleted user tries to sign up again with the same email and hits a confusing "already registered" error. A post's author was deleted months ago and the page throws trying to read a null relationship. Soft deletes look simple until a few edge cases quietly reshape how your data actually behaves.

Sep 1, 2026

ELOQUENT / 7 MIN

Mass assignment: why $fillable isn't protecting what you think it is

A public form, a $fillable array that's slightly too generous, and a user can set is_admin on their own account. Here's how mass assignment protection actually works, where it doesn't reach, and how Laravel 13's attribute syntax makes the config easier to audit at a glance.

Aug 29, 2026

QUEUES / 8 MIN

Why your queued jobs keep failing silently

A job throws an exception, gets retried a few times, and quietly lands in a failed_jobs table nobody's watching. Here's how to make failures loud, retries safe, and workers actually stay alive after a deploy.

Aug 29, 2026

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