Martin Fowler on how technical terms lose their meaning as they spread. When a useful concept becomes popular, it passes through a "telephone game" of explanations until the original definition gets diluted or even inverted. Think of how "agile" or "DevOps" are used today versus their original intent.
Read more [martinfowler.com]
– danielpetrica.com - submitted by Andrei-Daniel Petrica
A quick but essential fix for anyone pushing the edges of the Laravel ecosystem. The default FrankenPHP binary provided by artisan octane:install is static and locked to PHP 8.4, which causes major headaches if your application relies on PHP 8.5 features or specific system extensions.
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– coz.jp - submitted by Andrei-Daniel Petrica
Streamline dynamic multi-domain routing in Laravel with Traefik by serving YAML via the HTTP provider for automated, secure, and scalable configuration management. Ideal for Laravel developers and DevOps teams who want to eliminate bulky static files and improve maintainability.
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– coz.jp - submitted by Andrei-Daniel Petrica
A practical guide to deploying a high-performance Laravel stack using Octane, FrankenPHP, and a fully automated Docker Compose workflow.
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Marin Joo covers configuring Supervisor to manage worker processes, including defining commands, scaling, and logging. He also explores using multiple queues and prioritizing them to optimize worker usage.
Read more [martinjoo.dev]
A nice trick by my colleague Seb
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– mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Let's dive on how to enable OPCache and fine-tune php-fpm to handle the most requests as possible on a given machine.
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Choosing colocation for the infrastructure was the right decision for Ahrefs.
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– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
We now use GitHub actions to deploy our application
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Philo explains in great detail how to achieve this
Read more [philo.dev]
Stefan's backup workflow is very interesting.
Read more [stefanzweifel.dev]
At Oh Dear we've updated the OS on our servers and discovered a pretty nice side effect.
Read more [ohdear.app]
– geoligard.com - submitted by Goran Popović
While Supervisor is commonly used with queue-related commands, there is nothing stopping you from using Supervisor to run and monitor your own custom commands.
Read more [geoligard.com]
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Chris Fidao
FrankenPHP not only adds the great feature set of Caddy to Laravel, but can also compile everything down to a single executable that you can run anywhere!
Read more [www.youtube.com]
– fideloper.com - submitted by Chris Fidao
How to use Nginx Unit to server your Laravel application. It turns out, we can get rid of PHP-FPM, and run our apps more efficiently. We see how, and go over the pros and cons.
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– blog.eddy.management - submitted by Pascal Baljet
Caddy 2 is a popular web server written in Go. It is known for its simplicity and ease of use. It is also very easy to configure and deploy. In this tutorial, we will see how Eddy Server Management (open-source) can help you deploy Laravel apps with zero downtime.
Read more [blog.eddy.management]
I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prometheus. Using this package, you can send all sorts of metrics (user counts, subscription counts, queue workloads) around your Laravel to Prometheus and visualize the historical trends using Grafana.
Earlier this week Jason McCreary deployed a feature which automatically spawns new worker servers for Shift based on the job queue workload. This reduced server costs by 97% and wait times by 80%.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Airdrop determines when you can skip building static assets, saving a LOT of time and server resources in continuous integration and deployment.
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Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.
Read more [rohanrd.xyz]