Laracon EU 2018
2018-08-30..2018-08-31
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[Laracon EU 2013, Laracon EU 2015, Laracon EU 2016, Laracon EU 2017, Laracon EU 2018, Laracon EU 2019, Laracon EU 2022, Laracon EU 2024, Laracon EU 2025]
who it's for
Laravel developers, PHP developers, backend engineers, devops engineers, platform engineers, technical leads
topics
Lumen REST APIs; Laravel package development; Docker for Laravel; CI with Jenkins and CircleCI; Eloquent incremental migration; Queue scaling with SQS and workers; Media library and responsive images; MySQL 8 features; Database indexing techniques; Domain-driven design in PHP; Extending Laravel Nova; Alexa skills with Laravel
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Build bridges, not walls—Design for users across cultures | Jenny Shen | 44m |
Claims that culture changes UX beyond translation, backed by concrete methods and results: uses Hofstede dimensions and heat maps, runs A/B-style changes, and… | ||
| Zero to API with Lumen | Amanda Folson | 33m |
Claims Lumen spins a REST API up fast using Laravel pieces and Eloquent models with migrations and tests already compatible and a simple upgrade path to… | ||
| Alexa, let's build a voice powered app | Marcel Pociot | 35m |
Builds a working Alexa conference skill using PHP not Lambda, reusing existing Laravel code and the Batman PHP library to handle intents. Implements four… | ||
| Twelve-Factor Apps | Alex Bilbie | 41m |
Advocates applying the 12‑factor rules to Laravel with concrete practices: commit vendor directory to avoid external downtimes, bake dependencies into images… | ||
| IntroDDDuction | Robert Basic | 38m |
Argues that tactical DDD (entities, value objects, repositories) is easy to learn but the payoff is in strategic DDD: ubiquitous language and bounded contexts… | ||
| Customizing Laravel | Franz Liedke | 42m |
Shows how to extend Laravel by building a package that injects concrete failures: an 3% lottery decides when to act, it adds a random 1–3s DB sleep, replaces… | ||
| Migrating a 15 Year Old Enterprise Application to Laravel: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Gained | Taylor Dondich | 48m |
Migrates a 15‑year codebase to Laravel and proves it with concrete wins: bootstraps a minimal Laravel app to add caching (literally two lines added) and cuts… | ||
| Simplified Continuous Integration with Laravel and Jenkins | Margaret Staples | 33m |
Builds a minimal CI pipeline that actually runs: a Jenkins master on a DigitalOcean droplet and a separate deploy server, GitHub SSH keys for Jenkins… | ||
| DevOps and the Rebirth of Childhood Innocence | Robert Douglass | 33m |
Argues that DevOps complexity distracts developers with real tooling examples (Docker, Kubernetes, Composer, NPM, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis)… | ||
| Handling media in a Laravel application | Freek van der Herten | 46m |
A Laravel package that actually attaches files to Eloquent models and generates usable assets on demand demonstrates concrete results and workflows: media… | ||
| Kickass Laravel Development with Docker | David McKay | 42m |
Claims that Docker gives true dev/prod parity and shows a working Laravel setup: a multi-stage Dockerfile that keeps build artifacts small, a CI build that… | ||
| 5 [fun] ways to fall in love [again] with code | Christopher Pitt, Erika Heidi | 01h 03m |
Five concrete projects and the actual tools used: Minecraft redstone to model real logic (including a simulated 4051 chip and an LED matrix idea), Arduino and… | ||
| Fundamentally Flawed: Privacy, People and the Age of Data | Rizqi Djamaluddin | 41m |
Claims that the field is unprepared for the age of data and backs that with examples: a recent npm/eslint compromise slips a malicious package that exfiltrates… | ||
| Things every developer absolutely, positively needs to know about database indexing | Kai Sassnowski | 42m |
Shows B trees and why order matters, runs EXPLAIN in MySQL and reads the type column to see access patterns, uses a demo table of 2.25 million rows, and… | ||
| How we abused PHP and Laravel to do Big Data. | Marten Westphal | 32m |
A homegrown system called Cube uses PHP and Laravel to do ETL, object‑based consolidation and to export bulk slices to BigQuery for true big‑data queries… | ||
| Minimum Viable Linux | Mattias Geniar | 47m |
Shows concrete SSH tricks like using authorized_keys command to constrain keys, local and remote port forwarding and a SOCKS proxy; walks through live… | ||
| Crypto for Everyone | Marcus Bointon | 56m |
Libsodium lands in PHP 7.2 and provides concrete, secure defaults: Argon2 password hashing (Argon2i present, Argon2id slated for 7.3), constant‑time… | ||
| OMG MySQL 8.0 is out! Are we there yet? | Gabriela D'Avila Ferrara | 42m |
MySQL 8.0 actually shows concrete wins: instant DDL that adds columns without table copies, real window functions and common table expressions for rowwise… | ||
| Laravel Design Patterns | Bobby Bouwmann | 38m |
Covers four concrete patterns with PHP and Laravel code: Factory for views and validators, Builder/Manager showing createDriver/createXDriver behavior used by… | ||
| How Not to Break a Simple Idea | Mark Starkey | 51m |
Roadmap-first claim: get to a Minimum Viable Product quickly, keep it lean, refactor later. Practical tool choices: Laravel/Lumen, Nova for admin, pick… | ||
| Advanced animations with Vue.js: taking your interface to the next level | Krystal Campioni | 27m |
Shows working Vue.js examples: a small RPG-like interface with health and mana bars, a sprite-sheet with steps(10) driven by background-position and 0.8s… | ||
| SOLID Design Principles | Katerina Trajchevska | 42m |
Claim: applying SOLID makes code easier to extend maintain and understand; demonstrated with Laravel techniques: custom form requests for validation… | ||
| Extending Laravel Nova | Marcel Pociot | 20m |
Nova requires a paid license and a zip download that must be extracted and added to composer JSON before running artisan migrations, and extensibility includes… | ||
| Presenting Skills for Programmers | Chris Brown | 23m |
Advice names concrete fixes: take off the lanyard so photos look cleaner and connection improves, use a full white slide background for live coding so everyone… | ||
| Laravel in 2018 | Taylor Otwell | 40m |
Shows concrete Laravel 5.7 additions: signed URLs with expirations plus a built-in signed middleware used to implement out‑of‑the‑box email verification (adds… | ||
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