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Christopher Pitt is starting a new business with Spark. Over at the Sitepoint blog he has posted a tutorial on how to get started with Taylor's latest creation.

I am really excited about Laravel Spark. By the time you read this, there will probably be a multitude of posts explaining how you can set it up. That’s not as interesting to me as the journey I’m about to take in creating an actual business with Spark!

I have often wanted a way to quickly and painlessly transfer this application state from one server to another, and make automated offsite backups. So I’m going to set that up for myself, and perhaps others will find it useful enough to pay for it.

At Spatie, we're also in the process of creating or first SaaS based on Spark. That's why our package output will slow down a bit. It's too early to give any specifics on what we're building but I can already tell you that it's something very simple that we need at the company ourselves. Thanks to Spark we can open our solution up to other users. You'll hear more about it in a month or so.

Still on the topic of Spatie, maybe you've noticed that our company website is in Dutch. So most of you can't understand a single word on it. That's going to change in the near future: besides building a SaaS our team is in the process of creating a new website. This time there will be an English version.

Exciting times!

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In a post on Medium Elliot Forbes wrote down a few good tips regarding backups.

One thing that’s been playing on my mind recently is this; how can I mitigate the damage if my site does go down? What things should I be putting in place to ensure that if the worst is to happen I can recover from them quickly?

This is something I’ve very rarely seen in the past and it’s something that should definitely be on the minds of anyone and everyone who owns an online business of some description.

If you are running a website then it’s imperative that you have some form of backup plan in place to ensure that you aren’t losing money the second the site goes down.

You should always be prepared for the worst. Starfleet recommends having two separate backups. Who am I to argue with O' Brian?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPkSU8DNfY

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Konstantin Kudryashov shares some thoughts on the relation between predictability and innovation.

Every time I meet a client to discuss their new project plans, I encounter the same question: "I want my software to be unique and different. How much will it cost?” The problem is that unique products and true innovation are difficult to estimate, and even harder to accurately budget for. Helping a business find the balance between the innovation they need, and the predictability they want led me to create the Innovation Slider, a tool you can use to harmonise the split between innovation and predictability in software projects.

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