Cultivating success with Laravel
summary
Figured rewrites its app on Laravel and ships a production release in six weeks with 100% feature parity, enabled by Laravel + Forge tooling, later moved to Kubernetes. The stack handles over 35,000 customers, billions of financial transactions and about a million queued jobs a day, releases multiple times per day with confidence, lets juniors onboard and ship quickly, and powers new products like lending while keeping technical debt and infrastructure cost modest.
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chapters (38)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:34Figured
- 1:11Fintech
- 1:53Rails to Laravel
- 2:17Farm finances
- 3:02Maximising profits
- 4:24Laravel enables growth
- 4:46Happy developers
- 5:09Fertiliser example
- 6:41Simple complexity
- 7:052015 Technology choices
- 7:42Architectural issues
- 8:01Rails not to blame
- 8:45Common problems
- 9:24Scary releases
- 10:22Needed rewrite
- 10:46Tech considerations
- 11:20Laravel chosen
- 12:57Enabling quick rewrite
- 13:25Laravel ecosystem
- 14:45Swiss Army knife
- 15:27Best libraries
- 15:59Forge released
- 16:37Market expansion
- 17:20Beyond just SaaS
- 17:44Fast new products
- 17:5810 million cows
- 18:46Releasing daily
- 19:15Juniors can release
- 19:40Laravel scales
- 20:55Full history stored
- 21:18Helping farmers
- 21:49Correcting past mistakes
- 22:38Friend's wrong choice
- 23:14Right choice
- 23:49Enabling value
- 24:23Don't lose sight
- 24:33Thank you
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