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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

ELOQUENT / 8 MIN

The N+1 query problem: how to catch it before production does

N+1 queries are invisible on your local machine with ten rows of seed data. They're not invisible with ten thousand real rows. Here's how to spot them, fix them, and stop them from coming back.

Aug 29, 2026