Laravel Worldwide Meetup - Building Laravel Cloud

This month we are joined by Laravel core team member Joe Dixon! Laravel Cloud launched on February 24th - Joe will give us a peek behind the curtain of the platform built for developers and teams who just want to ship! Timestamps: 2:40 - Introduction 3:34 - Community Resources: https://laravel-news.com/ https://podcast.laravel-news.com/ - Explore the Laravel News site & podcast for the latest updates and discussions https://laravelpodcast.com/ - Laravel and PHP discussions with Matt Stauffer https://larajobs.com/ - The official Laravel Job Board https://laracasts.com - A great platform to check out to build your Laravel skills 4:51 - Events: Laracon India - https://laracon.in/ - March 8-9, 2025 in Ahmedabad, India Laracon US - https://laracon.us - Tickets are on sale now - July 29 - 30 in Denver, CO GTA PHP User Group - https://www.meetup.com/gta-php-user-group-toronto 5:35 - Host - Learn more at https://www.vehikl.com or reach out at [email protected] 5:53 - JetBrains Giveaway - please use the QR code at the end of the meetup! Enter anytime before March 4th for a chance to win one of two JetBrains coupons 6:13 - Joe Dixon Introduction 7:44 - Joe’s slides begin 9:11 - What is Laravel Cloud? 9:50 - Demo of Laravel Cloud 20:44 - The journey of Cloud so far 29:50 - Behind the curtain: decisions made & how things work 30:15 - Kubernetes 34:55 - React & Inertia: tech stack decisions 37:00 - Interesting design patterns: Fakes 40:05 - Actions: Making things happen 42:55 - Coverage: Not just a vanity metric 44:44 - Customer Support tool 46:45 - Joe answers some questions on X 54:01 - Laravel Cloud (https://cloud.laravel.com/), AMA (https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/1iu8l8g/im_joe_dixon_engineering_team_lead_of_laravel/?dub_id=1QKwBGxIIU9R4jR9&rdt=50809), Follow Joe on X (https://x.com/_joedixon) 54:50 - Q & A with Joe 1:10:10 - End slides Thank you to our guest: - Joe Dixon, check out: https://pinkary.com/@joedixon for more info on what he’s up to! Sign up for reminders to stay up to date on the latest events @ https://meetup.laravel.com Follow our co-hosts: - Margaret Tavares on X (https://x.com/margarettavares) & LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarettavares/) - Dan Soppelsa on X (https://x.com/dansoppelsa) & LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dansoppelsa/) Looking for Laravel work? These companies are hiring! Atarim - https://apply.workable.com/atarim/ Insomnia Cookies - https://jobs.lever.co/insomniacookies? Prompt Therapy Solutions - https://promptemr.com/company/careers/#positions