In recent years, the serverless paradigm has become known as a transformative approach to application development, allowing us to focus more on writing code and less on managing infrastructure. Laravel Vapor, a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications, brings the power of the Laravel framework into the world of serverless architecture.

When handling images in your Laravel applications, you may sometimes be required to edit them. This could include resizing, cropping, or converting images to meet a given criteria. For example, you may want to crop and resize all user avatar image uploads to a fixed-sized square. In this article, we'll examine how to use the Intervention Image (intervention/image) package in Laravel to edit images.

Ensuring that a growing codebase follows best practices and does not deviate from the standards is essential for any project. However, this can typically only be enforced manually by code reviews and other similar processes. As with any other manual task, this can be time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone. That's where architecture testing comes in. Architecture testing allows you to automatically enforce code standards such as naming conventions, method usage, directory structure, and more.

Many developers focus on developing core application functionalities and pay little or no attention to memory management until they run out of memory, and their apps start crashing, freezing, or experiencing random performance downgrades.