The Laracasts site has launched a new video series with some advanced tips on using Eloquent, the ORM layer from the Laravel framework.

Sure, you've learned the essentials of using Eloquent in your applications, but do you really understand what's going on under the hood? Well, that's specifically what we're interested in for this series. How do all the bits and pieces fit together?

There's two videos posted so far helping you build a basic application to work inside of and looking behind the scenes of "find" to see what happens when it's executed. Only the first video in the series is free, but it gives you an idea of what will be covered and the style of the videos.