Laracon EU 2024
2024-02-05..2024-02-06
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, backend PHP developers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, QA and test engineers, DevOps engineers
topics
Laravel framework internals; FrankenPHP application hosting; Reverb WebSocket server; test suite profiling and parallelism; database scaling and sharding; modular monolith architecture; Tailwindcss plugin customization; package ecosystem utilities; Rector PHP refactoring; event-sourced migration strategies; Herd Pro and Pulse metrics
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Luke Downing :: Lessons from the Laravel Framework | Luke Downing | 29m |
Shows that a single file reveals structure: web.php overview exposes middleware auth and verified, Breeze scaffolding, nested resource routes implying users… | ||
| Kévin Dunglas :: Running Laravel Apps with Frankenphp | Kévin Dunglas | 32m |
Frankenphp replaces PHP‑FPM and Apache with a single Go/C binary that bundles a Caddy web server, the real PHP engine and extensions, and native HTTP/3 + HTTPS… | ||
| Roman Pronskiy :: the PHP Foundation | Roman Pronskiy | 24m |
In 2021 only two paid developers work on PHP and that low bus factor prompts creation of the PHP Foundation which now funds about eleven developers, publicly… | ||
| Christoph Rumpel :: Managing 5000+ Tests Efficiently | Christoph Rumpel | 28m |
A Laravel codebase with 5,370 tests and ~20k assertions shrinks from a 50‑minute local run to about 5 minutes on a 10‑core MacBook Pro by profiling with Pest… | ||
| Daniel Coulbourne :: Flip the Switch Slowly | Daniel Coulbourne | 28m |
A migration strategy uses event sourcing to mirror legacy rows into a new Laravel schema by capturing actions in an events table, replaying them to generate… | ||
| Bobby Bouwmann :: Surviving Large Applications | Bobby Bouwmann | 31m |
Laravel monolith runs on MySQL in Kubernetes with 13 TB total data (9 TB core), ~17,750 API pods, 3,500–4,100 workers, 148 queues and processes 51 million jobs… | ||
| Rissa Jackson :: Window Magic, Command Line Wizardry | Rissa Jackson | 29m |
Demonstrates exact configs and working demos: a Hammerspoon Lua setup that binds keys to open Chrome iTerm and VS Code and tile windows, an Oh My Zsh + Z… | ||
| Tobias Petry :: Scaling Databases | Tobias Petry | 28m |
Starts with concrete failures: multimaster replication produces conflicts under concurrent writes so throughput drops; switching to read replicas fixes read… | ||
| Freek Van der Herten :: Uncharted Packages | Freek van der Herten | 34m |
Three hundred packages power real apps and together hit about 900 million downloads with ~45 million a month and a billion imminent; ten concrete utilities are… | ||
| Taylor Otwell :: Laravel Update | Taylor Otwell | 01h 11m |
Laravel 11 ships a slimmer app skeleton with auto-discovered providers, routes and events, consolidated bootstrapping, and a single-file overview; introduces… | ||
| Joe Dixon :: Real-Time Laravel | Joe Dixon | 34m |
Realtime Laravel demo shows a runnable websocket server called Reverb that starts with php artisan reverb:start, is written in PHP on reactphp's event loop… | ||
| Michi Hoffmann :: Eating Your Own Dog Food | Michi Hoffmann | 28m |
Built a production Slack kudos app called G Potato Slack app that runs PHP back end with a Go ingestion proxy, Terraform'd infrastructure and a Tailwind UI… | ||
| Shruti Balasa :: Explore the Art of Customising Tailwindcss | Shruti Balasa | 29m |
Gives concrete rules and examples: add global body styles directly in HTML, keep element defaults and lots of keyframes in CSS rather than the config, and… | ||
| James Brooks :: Working at Laravel | James Brooks | 26m |
Laravel LLC runs as eight engineers with no managers, 3,011 contributors to the framework, and about 305 million downloads (roughly four downloads a second)… | ||
| Mateus Guimarães :: Unveiling the Modular Monolith | Mateus Guimarães | 34m |
Argues that a modular monolith restores database transactions while giving logical boundaries, shows concrete Laravel changes: add a modules namespace in… | ||
| Tomas Votruba — Let Rector do the Boring Work | Tomas Votruba | 29m |
A CLI tool called Rector actually rewrites code to upgrade PHP and frameworks it runs on PHP 7.2 without conflicts inspects composer to pick the right PHP sets… | ||
| Katerina Trajchevska :: Maximizing Your Team's Performance | Katerina Trajchevska | 33m |
Claims that context switching and useless meetings are the biggest performance drains and that shifting quality ownership to developers plus incremental CI and… | ||
| Tim Macdonald :: Thoughtful Performance | Tim MacDonald | 30m |
Shows concrete Laravel tactics: use HTTP pool and Process::concurrently to shave three serial HTTP/process calls to about one second, adopt Spatie Fork to… | ||
| Philo Hermans :: Reusing Reusable Livewire Components | Philo Hermans | 27m |
A working modal system built with Livewire v3 and Alpine.js shows reusable UI pieces passed around as a PHP Artisan make:livewire component, opened via… | ||
| Marcel Pociot :: Parsing PHP for Fun...and Profit | Marcel Pociot | 26m |
Demonstrates concrete use of PHP-Parser (nikic) to parse code into ASTs, then mutates files with a node traverser and visitors: change every string, append a… | ||
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