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Working with images in Laravel using intervention/image

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.

Honing a DevOps Edge | Perforce's Vision and Roadmap 2025

Never before have the promises and perils of enterprise innovation been so great. An entire class of innovation built on AI creates enormous potential for delighting customers, igniting productivity and launching new offerings. But these opportunities are coupled with evolving risks, while mature enterprises must manage a broad portfolio of systems and applications. How will your DevOps teams quickly capitalize on the promises while mitigating new risks and tending to a more complex technology landscape?

Secure, Compliant AI for Government

Artificial intelligence (AI) was a major topic at Appian Government 2024, the premier event for public sector digital transformation leaders and mission owners. Most AI products are created on the West Coast, with commercial customers in mind. But commercial enterprises and government organizations differ in many ways. Important issues that affect the federal government’s approach to AI include: For 25 years, Appian has focused on serving public sector organizations.

Node.js v22 Enters Long Term Support (LTS)

On October 29, 2024,* Node.js v22 officially transitioned into *Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename 'Jod'. For developers and organizations relying on the stability of Node.js for production environments, this transition marks a key milestone for Node.js 22.x, ensuring it will receive critical updates and security support for years to come. Let’s take a closer look at what this means, along with a refresher on the Node.js release lifecycle .

Top 10 benefits of mobile apps for business

The need for smartphones and the mobile app development company is growing rapidly because of the boom in the digitalization of the market world. Therefore, several businesses and organizations are taking this as a huge opportunity to bring their business into the online world. Now, literally, every entrepreneur and company is capitalizing on mobile applications, whether they're focused on their specific industry or providing on-demand services.

Can AI replace Human Intelligence?

Is AI taking up human jobs? Can AI replace human intelligence? Will Artificial Intelligence replace humans in a few years? Well, these questions are in the news and spreading like wildfire on the internet leaving no one behind. This rapid advancement of AI has sparked intense debates about the potential implications for the future of work and the role of humans in a world increasingly driven by intelligent machines.

Architecture testing with Laravel Pest

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.

Achieving Escape Velocity: Thriving on Complexity to Drive Agility | DevOps & Data Impact 2024

Many businesses are struggling with the large mass of investments, complexity and technical debt of their IT estates. How can IT leaders create velocity and agility in this reality? In this executive panel, our session moderator, will lead a discussion with other IT leaders on how they’re employing modern practices, data and tools to embrace complexity and move faster without attempting impractical, failure-prone changes to the way they operate. You’ll learn proven practices for moving faster, just when your business needs it the most.

Platform Engineering: A Strategy for Productivity, Compliance & Security | DevOps & Data Impact 2024

Platform engineering has emerged as an essential discipline for empowering application development and DevOps teams to deliver better software faster, while seamlessly addressing security and compliance requirements. In this keynote, Sanjeev Sharma, SVP of Platform Engineering for Dell Technologies, will share how his business delivers a comprehensive, automated platform for its teams. He’ll give an update on their progress and achievements, while addressing the most challenging roadblocks they’ve faced along the way.