I was reading some tweets about scaling and how Laravel was a bit behind other frameworks and I remembered I have a cool scaling story to tell. Jack Ellis already wrote a very interesting blog on how Fathom Analytics scaled Laravel, but my story is about different. You're about to read how we scaled to over a hundred million jobs and peaks of 30,000 requests/minute a timespan of only twelve hours, using nothing but Laravel, MySQL and Redis. First, I must give some context: in 2019 I joined a...
almost 3 years ago • 7 min read
One very common question among people who started testing their stuff is..."Okay, now what? How do *actually* use this?" It is fairly easy to teach the basic concepts of testing, but it's really hard to teach people how to leverage testing/TDD to solve complex problems, especially with simple examples. With that said, there's no better way to teach that than test-driving a feature on a real application. Not a dummy ecommerce or blog, but an actual application that has complex features and...
over 3 years ago • 1 min read
Hey there, I'm writing to let you know of my newest project: 30 Days of Laravel. The idea here is to produce 30 short, easily digestible videos that you can watch real quick during your lunch break. They'll teach small tips and tricks on PHP and Laravel, and you might already know some of them, but I'm sure you'll learn new stuff 🙂. The goal is to send an e-mail, every day, for 30 days. It'll include the video, an in-depth explanation and documentation references. I have yet to finish...
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
