Migrating a 15 Year Old Enterprise Application to Laravel: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Gained
summary
Migrates a 15‑year codebase to Laravel and proves it with concrete wins: bootstraps a minimal Laravel app to add caching (literally two lines added) and cuts CPU and file I/O pressure; adopts Eloquent incrementally; runs CI/CD on CircleCI with 30–50 builds a day; moves long-running customer scripts into horizontally scalable queue workers run in isolated Docker containers supporting PHP, Lua, Java and Node; publishes a Developer Preview next week and open‑sources proxima core BPM, naira and the view form builder.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 18:04Laravel Caching
- 26:55Facade Mocking
- 27:31Testing Errors
- 29:27Testing Non-Existing
- 37:33The Current Process
- 38:29The New Process
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