Laracon AU 2018
2018-10-18..2018-10-19
Sydney, Australia
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who it's for
Laravel developers, backend PHP developers, full-stack developers, engineering managers, DevOps engineers, frontend developers, QA engineers
topics
Eloquent domain methods; Laravel Telescope debugging UI; utility-first CSS (Tachyons); git internals and recovery; zero-downtime Envoy/Docker/Kubernetes deploys; multi-tenant Eloquent scopes; migrating CodeIgniter to Laravel; microservices with message bus; pipeline filters for queries; database seeders as test fixtures; per-model cron scheduling with scheduler; Passport and Dusk hybrid testing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Resisting complexity | Adam Wathan | 39m |
Argues methods are affordances not abilities and shows concrete refactors: move broadcast into Announcement so the Announcement.broadcast method moved, replace… | ||
| A real-life journey into the opinionated world of 'utility-first' CSS | Simon Vrachliotis | 45m |
Argues that switching to utility-first CSS stops most custom stylesheet churn and speeds work dramatically, showing a real refactor from a messy BEM codebase… | ||
| Turning stories into software | Donna Benjamin | 30m |
Concrete methods turn sticky notes into working features: gather stories from workshops interviews surveys, map them with story mapping and apply INVEST to… | ||
| Goodbye, Silicon Valley: The Rise of the Indie Way | Kate Kendall | 36m |
Company built called CloudPeeps raises about $1M on a $5M then $8M valuation and hits the growth treadmill: investors demand 20% month‑on‑month growth while… | ||
| Building a complex product while scaling a team and a business on Laravel | Alex Lüneburg, Richard Wyke | 44m |
A prototype is rewritten from Ruby on Rails onto Laravel, using Forge, Envoy and Homestead, annotations for multi‑tenancy (F param) and Eloquent scopes… | ||
| Understanding git - even the scary parts | Anwesha Chatterjee | 25m |
Explains actual git internals: blobs trees commits as storage, how branches are just refs, and why rebasing rewrites commit objects so hashes change… | ||
| Introducing Telescope | Taylor Otwell | 36m |
A local and production-ready Laravel debugging UI called Telescope is presented that actually records HTTP requests with headers and responses, every database… | ||
| Abusing Laravel for Fun and Profit | David Hemphill | 44m |
Four concrete Laravel techniques: use the pipeline filters pattern to move request-driven query constraints into middleware-like classes so paginated invoice… | ||
| Level up with a Microservices architecture | Douglas Reith | 34m |
Argues for designing clear domain packages with DDD and CQRS, then packaging them so they run together now but can be split later, showing concrete tools: PHP… | ||
| Modelling business requirements with Eloquent | Kirk Bushell | 27m |
Eloquent and Laravel are the tools shown and the claim is concrete: move business terms into domain methods like start/submit domain methods, stop calling save… | ||
| Migrating to Laravel: Managing the ick | Mark Babič | 28m |
Migration plan focuses on concrete steps: run CodeIgniter (PHP 5.6) and Laravel (PHP 7.2) side-by-side in containers and use nginx request split to API vs… | ||
| Patterns that pay off | Matt Stauffer | 42m |
Clear claims and concrete practices: treat design patterns as preventative vs reactive (use a solution only when a problem appears), prefer monolith first… | ||
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