Horizontal Scaling Laravel: Guide to Scaling Your App to Millions of Users
Comprehensive guide on horizontal scaling for Laravel: load balancing, session sharing, distributed caching, queue workers, and database replication.
21 articles
DevOps practices for modern development workflows. Topics include CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and deployment automation.
Comprehensive guide on horizontal scaling for Laravel: load balancing, session sharing, distributed caching, queue workers, and database replication.
Deploy Laravel to Kubernetes step by step. Container setup, Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, horizontal scaling, and production best practices.
Implement distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging in Laravel with OpenTelemetry. Export to Jaeger, Grafana, and Datadog for full production observability.
Your app running smoothly on localhost doesn't mean production is fine. A comprehensive guide to setting up monitoring for Laravel: metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards.
No servers, no Nginx, no SSH. A detailed guide to running Laravel applications on AWS Lambda using Bref, with near-zero costs for low-traffic sites.
A guide to using Terraform to automate your entire AWS infrastructure for Laravel applications: VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, ALB, CloudFront. No clicking, no memorizing CLI commands.
Design a production-ready AWS architecture entirely via the Console: VPC with public/private subnets, security groups, IAM roles — every step click-by-click.
Design a production-ready AWS architecture for Laravel: VPC with public/private subnets, security groups, IAM roles, and the complete infrastructure blueprint before touching any server.
Complete the Docker dev environment with multi-version PHP-FPM containers, MySQL 5.7/8.0/8.4, Adminer, Mailpit for email testing, and a Makefile workflow for daily development.
Deep dive into the Nginx reverse proxy: how the map directive routes traffic dynamically, writing vhost configs for PHP projects, and setting up self-signed SSL for local HTTPS.
Build a Docker-based local development environment that handles multiple PHP projects, multiple PHP versions, databases, and dev tools — all through a single Nginx reverse proxy.
The final part of the Building SaaS series: deploying to production with Docker, Nginx, wildcard SSL, CI/CD pipeline, monitoring, and scaling strategies.
A comprehensive guide on installing Mailpit as a MailHog replacement on Amazon Linux 2023, configuring Nginx reverse proxy, and integrating with Laravel.
Stop deploying GB-sized Docker images. Learn to use Multi-stage builds, Alpine Linux, and layer optimization to create ultra-light and secure Laravel images.
Deploy new features safely, perform A/B testing, and manage strategic rollouts using the official Laravel Pennant package.
A comprehensive guide to installing Certbot, obtaining a free SSL certificate, facilitating auto-renewal, and hardening your Nginx configuration.
Reading `laravel.log` via SSH is painful. Learn how to centralize your logs using the Stack channel and external services like Papertrail or Datadog.
Automate your testing and deployment workflow using GitHub Actions.
A complete guide to configuring Nginx for hosting Laravel applications.
A detailed guide on installing Supervisor on Amazon Linux to manage Laravel Queue workers, ensuring processes always run in the background.
Stop SSH-ing into your server and pulling via Git manually. Automate your deployment pipeline with Laravel Envoy for zero-downtime updates.