In the field development the count of branches reach form 1 to 40 50 in like no time. and most of then are of no use ones merged into the master. Its better to get rid of them but deleting them is a major pain in the ass.
As you know regular backups of DB for a running site are very important. Most of the hosting providers do this for you, but sometimes its also expected from you to do the same.
As you may have known by now that laravel 6.0 has been out. Though it's expected to have a lot of changes in the major release but in 6.0 there are not that many changes.