🚀 Learn Laravel by Building a Real-World Microservice
"All Gary's courses are great, he just has such a brilliant way of explaining difficult subjects" - Andre Kruger
Build a Real-World Laravel Microservice
Microservices are the backbone of modern applications—designed for scalability, flexibility, and seamless API integrations. Unlike monolithic applications, microservices allow you to break complex systems into smaller, independent services that communicate efficiently.
In this hands-on course, you’ll build a Laravel microservice from scratch, handling webhooks, processing data, and integrating with external APIs—exactly the kind of skills companies look for in experienced Laravel developers.
By the end of this course, you’ll be confident in:
✅ Building event-driven, PHP microservices
✅ Decoupling scalable / maintainable logic
✅ Processing and responding to webhooks
✅ Integrating seamlessly with 3rd parties
Every lesson includes video, clear explanation text, and code.
Whether you’re looking to advance your career, optimize existing projects, or build SaaS applications, this practical, structured approach ensures you truly understand and apply Laravel microservices in real-world projects.
See for yourself - jump in and start building today! 🚀
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One payment of $59 + VAT added on checkout page
✅ 60 video tutorials for $59
✅ Subtitles in your language
✅ Over 5 hours of content
✅ All code examples included
✅ Lifetime ownership
📜 Certificate of achievement
🤝 30 days money back guarantee
By the end of the course, you’ll have a complete understanding of these ESSENTIALS…
🔥 Laravel Microservices – Structuring and building scalable, decoupled services in Laravel
🔗 Handling Webhooks – Receiving, validating, and processing webhook events from external platforms
🛰 Service-to-Service Communication – Sending and receiving data between two Laravel apps via HTTP
🧪 Testing Strategies – Writing feature tests, mocking requests, and verifying outbound API calls
🖥 Building a Frontend Dashboard – Displaying data using Blade, Tailwind CSS, Laravel Breeze
🛠 Laravel’s HTTP Client – Making clean, testable API calls with fakes and assertions
🏗 Mock External Services – Creating realistic mock services for development and testing
🔍 Static Analysis with PHPStan – Improving code quality and catching issues early
📌 Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) – Structuring and validating incoming data cleanly and consistently
🎛 Configuration Management – Managing environment-specific settings and API integrations
📦 Composer Scripts – Automating repetitive dev tasks with helpful Composer shortcuts
🩺 Health Check Endpoints – Implementing endpoints for uptime monitoring and system checks
🚦 Validation & Error Handling – Using custom error handlers based on environment
🔒 Security & Best Practices – Safely handling external input, validating payloads, and minimizing risk
🗄 Database Seeding & Factories – Populating test databases with consistent, repeatable data
♻️ Event-Driven Architecture – Mapping and handling subscription lifecycle events
📊 Forwarding Data to External APIs – Integrating cleanly with third-party tools and CRMs
✨ PLUS MUCH MORE! ✨
Check Out These Example Vids From The Course
Understanding Microservices and What We Will Build
Microservices are a software development technique where applications are broken down into smaller, self-contained services that are easier to build, maintain, and scale.
Composer Scripts
Composer scripts are a powerful feature that allows you to automate common tasks in your PHP projects. They provide a convenient way to run frequently used commands, such as testing, linting, or analyzing your code, without having to remember and type the full command each time.
Pest Feature Tests
Feature testing ensures that your application behaves as expected from the user's perspective by testing how different components work together. In Laravel, feature tests interact with your application’s routes, middleware, controllers, and more, making them an essential part of verifying your application’s functionality.
Single Action Controllers
A single action controller is a controller that has only one method, __invoke()
. Laravel automatically calls this method when the route is hit, meaning we don’t need to specify a method in our route definition.
HTTP Client Test Assertions
When testing Laravel applications, it’s easy to verify responses that your app returns. But what about the data your app forwards to external services? In a microservice architecture, ensuring that the right data is sent to the right destination is just as important as validating incoming requests.
Tagging Container Services
As our Laravel microservice evolves, we need a clean and scalable way to register multiple webhook handlers without manually injecting each one. This is where tagged services in Laravel come in.
Creating and Updating Contacts
This lesson is where everything comes together. We've built the microservice, handled incoming webhooks, validated data, and forwarded it to AudienceGrid. Now, we complete the loop by storing contact data and ensuring it can be viewed in the dashboard.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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FAQs
Q. Do I need to be a Laravel expert?
A. Nope. You’ll need basic Laravel familiarity, but I will explain everything along the way.
Q. Is this course beginner-friendly?
A. It’s structured to be beginner-friendly, but also includes concepts and techniques that intermediate developers will find valuable.
Q. Will I have lifetime access?
A. Yes — buy once, and it’s yours forever.
Q. Who is this course for?
A. I’ve designed this course to be useful to any PHP developer because Laravel is now such a massive part of the PHP ecosystem.
It covers real-world Laravel techniques you won’t find in most tutorials, so intermediate developers will definitely get something new out of it.
But I’ve also taken the time to explain everything clearly — even the parts that more experienced devs take for granted — so that newer Laravel developers won’t get left behind.
Whether you’ve just started with Laravel or you’ve been using it for a while, I’ve worked hard to make this course inclusive, practical, and genuinely helpful for ALL.
BUY THIS COURSE NOW
One payment of $59 + VAT added on checkout page
✅ 60 video tutorials for $59
✅ Subtitles in your language
✅ Over 5 hours of content
✅ All code examples included
✅ Lifetime ownership
📜 Certificate of achievement
🤝 30 days money back guarantee
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Laravel Microservice and PHP Framework Pro Bundle
Most PHP developers jump straight into using frameworks without truly understanding what’s happening under the hood. They write controllers, register services, and use middleware—but do they really know how it all works?
This bundle bridges that gap by giving you the best of both worlds
Laravel Microservice and Battle Ready Laravel Bundle
This bundle is designed to give you both practical experience building a real-world microservice and the expertise to audit, test, and improve your Laravel applications like a pro.
Learn the deeper mechanics behind performance, scalability, and maintainability. And to make your applications truly bulletproof?
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Here's a List Of The Course Lessons
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- Creating a Laravel Project (2:51)
- Exploring a Laravel Project (13:25)
- Course Dependencies
- PHPStan (3:51)
- Composer Scripts (5:59)
- Healthcheck Endpoints (4:22)
- Pest Feature Tests (4:37)
- Single Action Controllers (11:01)
- Webhook Payloads (7:17)
- Webhook DTO (5:24)
- Instantiate Webhook DTO (8:20)
- HTTP Client (9:32)
- What Are Laravel Facades? (3:35)
- HTTP Client Test Assertions (5:28)
- How's it going so far?
- Webhook Handlers (6:47)
- Delegating to Webhook Handlers (4:51)
- Tagging Container Services (12:55)
- Pest Datasets (5:24)
- Google Subscription DTO (5:38)
- Database Schema (4:24)
- Database Migrations (9:16)
- Model Attribute Casting (6:00)
- IDE Helper
- Database Seeders (7:12)
- Seeding The Test Database (7:44)
- Factory Classes (9:57)
- Refactoring For Testability (6:51)
- Custom Exceptions (4:27)
- Unit Testing With Mock Objects (6:44)
- Testing Exceptions (5:27)
- Subscription Forwarders (5:26)
- Tagging Forwarders (8:16)
- Test Planning (7:58)
- Pest Test Helpers (6:37)
- PHPStan Config - Suppressing Errors (1:46)
- Arrayable Interface (4:52)
- Mapping Data (7:03)
- Subscription Mapper Test (6:30)
- Validating DTOs (8:54)
- Validation Testing (11:05)
- Fixing Broken Tests (9:50)
- Forwarding Data with HTTP Client (4:03)
- Upgrading Laravel Version (2:56)
- Microservice Error Handling (5:01)
- Environment-specific Error Handling (7:24)
- Feature Testing Errors (11:38)
- Reading Environment Variables (3:21)
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BUY THIS COURSE NOW
One payment of $59 + VAT added on checkout page
✅ 60 video tutorials for $59
✅ Subtitles in your language
✅ Over 5 hours of content
✅ All code examples included
✅ Lifetime ownership
📜 Certificate of achievement
🤝 30 days money back guarantee
Alternatively, choose one of these related bundles...
Laravel Microservice and PHP Framework Pro Bundle
Most PHP developers jump straight into using frameworks without truly understanding what’s happening under the hood. They write controllers, register services, and use middleware—but do they really know how it all works?
This bundle bridges that gap by giving you the best of both worlds
Laravel Microservice and Battle Ready Laravel Bundle
This bundle is designed to give you both practical experience building a real-world microservice and the expertise to audit, test, and improve your Laravel applications like a pro.
Learn the deeper mechanics behind performance, scalability, and maintainability. And to make your applications truly bulletproof?
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Hello and thank you so much for checking out my work. My name is Gary Clarke and I'm a software developer with many years experience, primarily in PHP. I started creating video tutorials during lockdown in 2020 because I wanted the challenge of being able to explain complex / technical subjects to others in a way which is easy to understand and remember.
At this moment in time, my videos have been watched over a million times and I intend to keep creating new and improved content and teaching more and more new people. It would be my pleasure to see you on the inside of one of my courses.