Load Balancing explained
An excellent blog post with clear visual examples on how the most command load balancing strategies work.
Read more [samwho.dev]
Introducing LiteFS
– fly.io
The good people at Fly.io have but together a way to use SQLite in a distributed way.
Read more [fly.io]
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Spawning workers based on queue workload
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]
Why You Should Start Self Hosting
Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.
Read more [rohanrd.xyz]
How does Treblle scale on AWS without breaking the bank?
Here's how Treblle, a large Laravel app, manages to keep their AWS costs low.
Read more [treblle.com]
Monitoring Laravel Vapor metrics with Grafana Cloud
Once configured, you can see all of the metrics you need to ensure your Vapor app is healthy on one screen.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
How we use ElasticSearch, Kibana and Filebeat to handle our logs
Flare runs on a few different servers that each produce their own logs. In this post, you'll learn how you can combine multiple logs in a single stream.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Rationing Your Laravel Queue Workers Memory And CPU Consumption
If you're running your queue workers on a server with limited resources, or a server that's also used to serve HTTP requests and do other tasks, it's important to ration the resource used by those workers.
Read more [divinglaravel.com]
Managing your DNS from GitHub with DNSControl
– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven
How you can leverage DNSControl and GitHub Actions to make DNS configuration a breeze.
Read more [svenluijten.com]
Multi-server Atomic Laravel Deployments with GitHub Actions
Learn how to deploy your Laravel application without any down-time using Github Actions. This technique works for almost any application (Symfony, WordPress, you name it).
Read more [philo.dev]
Introducing Laravel Backup Server original
I'm proud to announce the release of our newest package Laravel Backup Server. This paid package can backup several servers at once. When a backup contains files also present in a previous backup, deduplication using hard links will be performed. Even though you will see full backups in the…
Selling digital products using Laravel part 10: Miscellaneous interesting tidbits + outro original
We've already covered a lot of ground in this series. Let's finish by highlighting some miscellaneous interesting tidbits.
Static webhosting benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub & Cloudflare
Xavier Decuyper researched which provider offers the fastest static webhosting.
Read more [www.savjee.be]
Hosting daemon apps on Forge
Christopher Pitt guides you can host daemon apps, for example Next apps, on Forge
Read more [assertchris.io]
AWS VPC for Software Engineers
– blog.deleu.dev - submitted by Marco Deleu
This post offers a good explanation of VPC and related terms.
Read more [blog.deleu.dev]
You should not run your mail server because mail is hard.
Contrary to the title, Gilles Chehade that it's acutually doable running your own mailserver.
TL;DR: Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it. Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing. Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none …
Read more [poolp.org]
I forgot how to manage a server
When you don't use specific knowledge or skills, you may find that, eventually, you just forget said knowledge or skill.
Something embarrassing happened to me the other day. I was playing around with a new server on Digital Ocean and it occurred to me: I had no idea how to manage it. This is slightly awkward because I've been a sysadmin for over 10yrs, the largest part of my professional career.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
Dockerize your Laravel app with Vessel
Chris Fidao has created an easy to handle, well documented, Docker dev environment for Laravel projects. It's an excellent starting point if you want to have a taste of what Docker can do.
For the introductory newsletter:
I like Vessel the best for the following reasons: 1. It's installed per-project instead of globally. This lets me customize it per project if need be. 2. Docker lets me change out versions of software such as Nginx, MySQL, Redis, and others very easily. (I've often needed to use an older MySQL version at work) 3. Docker lets me add extra software (perhaps Beanstalkd for queues, or PgSQL for database) really easily 4. Docker containers are more like processes than VMs. They generally only use what resources they need (with some caveats, but even with those, they're lighter than Vagrant virtual machines) 5. I can fill up my workstation with one technology (Docker!) instead of many (PHP, Redis, MySQL, etc) with all their configuration files and data strewn about all over my file system 6. You can expand on your dev workflow to build up to a production workflow using all the same technology (Docker!) - You can check out Shipping Docker for my full course on bringing Docker from dev into production.
Load balancing with Nginx
On his recently redesigned Servers For Hackers site Chris Fidao published a free 6 part series on how to use Nginx as a load balancer.
We cover how to use Nginx as a load balancer, and see how load balancing affects our application.
Free Wildcard SSL Using Forge + Cloudflare
If you need a free SSL certificate Let's Encrypt seems like the obvious way to go. But the installation and renewal process of Let's Encrypt surely has it's caveats. An alternative to Let's Encrypt is to use a free certificate issued by Cloudflare. On his blog Taylor Otwell published a post explaining how to request and install such a certificate.
I personally prefer to use Cloudflare, another service that offers free SSL certificates, as well as a variety of other free and paid services that are useful for web developers. I prefer Cloudflare because: - Cloudflare doesn’t require any renewal process to ever run on my server. LetsEncrypt renewals must run on my server at least every 3 months and that’s just one more thing that sometimes can (and does) go wrong. - Cloudflare supports wildcard sub-domains.
https://medium.com/@taylorotwell/free-wildcard-ssl-using-forge-cloudflare-ab0ebfbf129f
