Production Laravel: SaaS, REST, and E-Commerce
Three battle-tested tutorial series covering multi-tenant SaaS, REST API design, and a full-stack E-commerce platform — every layer you need to ship a real Laravel product to production.
- Posts
- 14
- Estimated
- ~11 hours
- Skill level
- intermediate
Building a Modern SaaS Application with Laravel - Part 1: Multi-Tenancy Architecture & Database Foundations
After building and scaling SaaS applications serving over 50,000 organizations, I've learned that the architecture decisions you make on day one will either e...
Building a Modern SaaS Application with Laravel - Part 2: Auth, Billing & Tenant Isolation
Laravel SaaS multi tenancy and billing: a fail-closed tenant scope, a test that fails without it, and Cashier on the tenant, run on stripe-mock.
Building a Modern SaaS Application with Laravel - Part 3: Production Scaling, Queues & Observability
Laravel SaaS queues and observability: in my Horizon test a separate queue cut a small tenant's wait from about 15 s to about 2 s. Tenant log IDs, limits, queue depth.
Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform with Laravel 12 - Part 1: Domain-Driven Architecture & Project Setup
Estimated Reading Time: 22 minutes Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced...
Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform with Laravel 12 - Part 2: Product Catalog & Cart with Database Design
Laravel 12 product, variant and integer-price schema, indexed catalog queries with EXPLAIN output, and a database cart that merges on login, all tested.
Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform with Laravel 12 - Part 3: Stripe Payments, Webhooks & Order Lifecycle
Laravel 12 Stripe webhooks that handle duplicate and out-of-order events: signature check, idempotency keys, an order state machine, and a full runnable test setup.
Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform with Laravel 12 - Part 4: Inventory, Shipping APIs & Tax Calculations
Stop overselling in Laravel 12 with a tested stock-reservation pattern, plus shipping and tax APIs behind fakeable interfaces and exact rounding rules.
Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform with Laravel 12 - Part 5: Docker, Kubernetes Manifests & CI/CD Pipeline
When your e-commerce platform starts processing 10,000+ orders daily, manual deployments and single-server architectures become your bottleneck. At a previous role, we learned this the hard way when …
Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform with Laravel 12 - Part 6: Horizontal Scaling, Redis Caching & Query Optimization
Make a Laravel 12 app stateless with Redis, fix a slow query with EXPLAIN, stop cache stampedes, and watch a Kubernetes HPA scale it on kind.
Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform with Laravel 12 - Part 7: Test Pyramid, Security Hardening & PCI Compliance
Test and harden a Laravel 12 checkout with real output: the CSRF-off-in-tests gotcha, the Stripe webhook CSRF blind spot, CSP, rate limits, a k6 smoke test and PCI DSS SAQ A vs A-EP.
Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform with Laravel 12 - Part 8: Zero-Downtime Deployments, Monitoring & Incident Response
Run safe expand/contract migrations, readiness probes and store-specific alerts for a Laravel 12 shop locally, with measured results and an incident runbook.
Building a REST API with Laravel - Part 1: API Design, Versioning & Sanctum Authentication
Ship a tested Laravel REST API with Sanctum: /api/v1 routes, token abilities and expiry, one JSON error format, and fixes for three 401/403/429 bugs.
Building a REST API with Laravel - Part 2: Resource Controllers, Validation & API Transformers
Why Laravel list endpoints need nullable on every query rule, and the two bootstrap/app.php settings that stop 302 and 500 responses on bare API requests.
Building a REST API with Laravel - Part 3: Rate Limiting, Caching & Production Hardening
Laravel API rate limiting per Sanctum token, Redis tag caching with invalidation, ETags and config:cache traps, plus a benchmark where caching didn't help.