Expert Capstone: Production-Ready Laravel API Platform

This capstone is designed as a production-ready API platform blueprint. ## Core modules - Auth with Sanctum - Role-based permissions - CRUD resources - Transactions and locking - Caching with invalidation - Queues with retries + Horizon - Logging and health checks - Rate limiting and security headers ## Architecture ```mermaid flowchart LR A[Frontend / Mobile] --> B[Laravel API] B --> C[(MySQL)] B --> D[(Redis Cache + Queue)] B --> E[Worker Fleet] B --> F[Monitoring] ``` ## Practical build order 1) Auth + policies 2) Core CRUD + API resources 3) Transactions + locking for critical flows 4) Cache and invalidation 5) Queue jobs + retries + Horizon 6) Logging + health checks 7) Deployment strategy Completing this project gives you strong confidence to build and maintain Laravel systems at a professional level.