#Deployment

Laravel Cloud now deploys fully managed Symfony applications with no code changes, detecting the framework from composer.json and configuring the runtime for you.

Calling env() in a controller works in development and returns null in production. Here is why config caching breaks it and the one rule that avoids the trap.

A handful of Artisan optimization commands shave real milliseconds off every request in production. Here is what each one does and when to run it.

Laravel Cloud just shipped Scale-to-Zero Flex compute, 20x faster cold starts, and a new four-tier pricing structure. Here is what changed and what it means for your hosting bill.