Have some personal news... My time at Laravel has come to an end. In 5 years & 6 months I've got to work with brilliant people & learned a lot. Now it's time to go back to being a Laravel user & one of its biggest fans. Had to wait till after April fool's day to write this 😀

It's time. gowithphp.com/

For many years, I considered all talk about scale to be irrelevant. If you throw enough money at it, any web stack can scale to handle more traffic. With an abundance of free investor money, I've always believed that startups should choose the stack that allows them to move faster and further. As focus shifted to profitability in the recent year or two, cost control has become an important concern. PHP is my favorite programming language, but it blocks execution threads and network connections (DB, HTTP, Cache, etc.). Should we abandon PHP? NO! is my answer! Why should development speed be sacrificed for cost control? Why not have it both ways? I placed a bet on PHP and added GoLang to the stack and the results exceeded my expectations. Here's a look at my current stack (for cost control): 1. All web clients talk to a load balancer. 2. The load balancer handles SSL & routes most requests to the PHP monolith. 3. Requests to endpoints that receive high traffic & perform many I/O operations are routed to a Go web server. 4. The PHP monolith & Go server dispatch tasks to the queue & read/write from/to database & cache clusters. 5. A separate Go program handles background jobs (from the queue) and periodic tasks (scheduled). What do I get from Go? - Handlers waiting for I/O operations yield to the runtime so others can run. - I can handle concurrent workloads without having to start new worker processes. Which translates to less memory consumption. - Network connections are kept alive & re-used. - Database connections are put back for reuse once the query finishes. They aren't kept hostage until a response is sent. What do I get by keeping PHP? The tooling available in the ecosystem (& Laravel in specific) is lightyears ahead. It allows developers to get things done faster by spending their time adding functionality rather than re-inventing the wheel. Should you switch to this stack? Are you struggling with compute infrastructure cost at the moment? If the answer is no, stick with PHP. It'll help you move faster, add value, onboard more customers, and hopefully get crazy traffic so you start having infrastructure cost concerns :) That's a nice problem to have, specially that solutions are available.

These past 12 months were the most intense: - Lost >60% of my life savings - Left my country for good - Lost my place at Laravel - Gained 15 kilos after being athletic most of my life Haven't shared my yearly review for 2 years. So here's my share. themsaid.com/journal/lessons…

Coming to Laravel next week: Add multiple columns after a specific column.

One month since switching from Lambda to EC2. Cost savings are hundreds of thousands of dollars on annual basis. We haven't used reserved instances yet, and I'm convinced that by moving a few more endpoints from PHP to Go, we could reduce the number of instances to half.

Hello, I’m VP of Engineering at foodics.com; a cloud-based POS & payment solutions provider that operates on a large scale & is mostly based on Laravel. Two massive monolith apps maintained by 8 teams & handling several millions of requests every hour. (1/3)

It's here 🎉 A complete series covering Laravel queues @laracasts - Configurations - Handling Failures - Complex Workflows - Best Practices - Deployments - Scaling - & How it works Check it out: laracasts.com/series/laravel…

Scalability is overrated. Maintainability is underrated.

Finally Certified! 🎉

I'm beyond excited to share with you that "Laravel Queues in Action" is now available! 🚀 Learn how to utilize the power of queues to make your applications faster & more reliable while reducing costs. Thanks for your support 🤗 & hope you like it! learn-laravel-queues.com

Laravel is 10 year old tomorrow! Here’s the first commit: github.com/laravel/laravel/t…

Daily costs while moving from Lambda to EC2 for a high traffic service. More than 50% cost savings so far.

If you're learning PHP, or want to refresh your knowledge, we've put together this guide to PHP in 2021/2022. It explains: - Variables & Data Types - Functions - Control Structures - Object-Oriented Programming - Enums - Frameworks Check it out 🤟🏽 piped.video/YrWXClIMph4

Fullstack JS is 😵‍💫 Fullstack PHP is 😵‍💫 Frontend JS is 😍 Backend PHP is 😍

Just realized that if you a keyed implicit binding, Laravel will automatically scope the query to retrieve the child model by its parent. I've been working with Taylor for 5 years and it still amazes me how focused he is on taking care of these granular details in @laravelphp

Relax. Close Twitter. Smile. Open your code editor. Write PHP code as usual. Provide for your family.

Almost a year since I started using Go and I still believe PHP (Laravel) is the perfect match for building web applications.

I just found Laravel hotel in Dubai.

This tiny PHP tool I built helped me create my first eBook using just markdown. Today, I've open-sourced it on github.com/themsaid/ibis with the same configurations I used to create my book as defaults. Run "ibis build" and generate a book similar to learn-laravel-queues.com/ ❤️

Look who’s a real developer now.

In what language other than PHP can someone build a course platform with billing, uploads and account management in 2 hours? I've been using PHP for over a decade now but still feel shocked when I get something that seems big done in a couple of hours. PHP+Tailwind+Vue

RIP to the opportunities we missed because of shyness, low self esteem and weak passports.

Here we go. Learn how to build a NuxtJS app that communicates with a Laravel REST API and authenticates via session based authentication. piped.video/FpwOvxsG8Js

Last week, I discussed a Go program that enabled me to run Laravel jobs with up to 700 concurrent executions on a machine that could only handle 100 concurrent executions with PHP. Today, I'm sharing insights on the problem and the solution. themsaid.com/using-golangs-c…

Eid Mubarak everyone celebrating tomorrow 😊 May you enjoy your first morning coffee to the fullest. ☕️

3 years apart. Happy birthday Zain.

Today we celebrated Zain’s first birthday. What a year! Busiest year of my life!

One of the recent use cases for GoLang was building a worker for an SQS queue that receives over 50m jobs/day. There were 100 PHP workers maxing out a 4 vCPU instance. Switching to Go & using coroutines allowed us to run 700 workers on the same machine.

4 years ago today 🙌🏽

Laravel 5.5.5 is out with a nice Route::fallback() method to help customize your 404 views, you'll have access to sessions, cookies, auth...

Coming to Laravel 8.

I keep forgetting that we have the Null Coalesce Assignment Operator in PHP 7.4. It is GREAT!

A $6/m VPS is inexpensive, dependable, and effective. I wrote about: why this VPS is a perfect place to start. Libraries needed for PHP. What you get. Getting more. The edge!. @levelsio as a case study. themsaid.com/the-six-dollar-…

On vacation in this amazing city. It’s impressive what humans can build. From enabling software to humongous buildings.

Who did this? learn-laravel-news.com 😀 Whoever you’re, thank you 🙏🏽😊

For the past week, I've been going crazy rebuilding a *better* version of an AWS service. Something that I had in mind for over 2 years. If it works, I'll open source it. If not, I had a lot of fun. The ability to build is magic, and the freedom to build is a bless.

Did you know you can do subdomain routing in Laravel? Useful if your app responds to multiple domains and you want to match a set of routes to a specific subdomain. Also useful to test subdomains in Valet + Production without having to hardcode the domains.

Laravel Queues in Action (2nd edition) is out! Join me in exploring the many ways we can use the queue system to enhance our applications. learn-laravel-queues.com/

My 2021 setup

Go is one of the languages that I quickly fell in love with. It's not only fun to use, but its concurrency model allowed me to boost the performance of several parts of my software. If you’re a PHP developer who wants to learn Go? Join me! themsaid.com/php-to-go?s=twi…

Wanna know what I've been working on lately? Check this out 👇👇👇 workerless.run

"Unpopular?" opinion: Vue is still very cool.

I've done several technical due diligence lately & was surprised, that over 70% of those companies use PHP & many of those use Laravel. Also when talking to CTOs I find that no one heard that "PHP is dead". Twitter is a small bubble compared to the real world. PHP still rules.

Starting today, new Forge servers have Imagick installed by default.

New cover ✨✨

Managing the infrastructure for 50+ high-traffic PHP applications was becoming a challenge. In this post, I describe the process I went through to redefine how I do that. themsaid.com/infrastructure-…

Let’s use Laravel

Laravel is exploring the world of asynchronous PHP. Thought this might be a good time to share an introduction on the topic. This post explains async—looking into processes, threads, coroutines/fibers. Laravel/Swoole specific posts are in the pipeline. divinglaravel.com/asynchrono…

Switching from Redis to DynamoDB as a cache driver for Laravel and back.

I was always proud of the things I did for Laravel since I started contributing in 2016. But now that I'm on the using end, I'm 10x more proud. Laravel offers a truly one of a kind DX that makes building—& managing teams that build—secure, scalable & performant apps much easier.

كل عام وانتم بخير ورمضان كريم 🌙✨ Happy Ramadan Everyone

Early access to the course is now available: Join me in learning a beautiful compiled language as PHP developers. themsaid.com/courses/php-to-…

Just published a free update to my book (Laravel Queues in Action). It covers all the new features added to Laravel and Horizon up to Laravel 11. You can download it now from the dashboard on my site. Hope you find it useful 🙂

Let's all wish Mr. @taylorotwell a happy birthday 🎂

High availability is a myth

New to Laravel v8.32.0: The ability to slow the workers down. Here we say: rest 500 milliseconds between every job, and sleep 5 seconds whenever the queue is empty.

Look who I met today.

Ok, I didn't want to make it official yet but I'm working on a book/course covering everything related to Laravel Queues. It's a set of challenges that we deal with using queues. Hitting rough edges, showing common mistakes, complex requirements etc...

Laravel v8.19 comes with better control over code that runs around DB transactions. From dispatching queued jobs to running event listeners, you may now tell Laravel to run the code only when the transaction has committed. Wrote about it in my recent post: divinglaravel.com/better-man…

Congrats to @unicodeveloper for being a GitHub star ⭐️🤳📸stars.github.com/profiles/un…

What a day! Thanks everyone for your support and trust! I’m sure I’ll remember today for the rest of my life. Standing here in my favorite spot and reflecting, I’m very lucky to belong to this community.

Today is the only good day to say that PHP is dead and you should all use something else.

Part 1 of "PHP to Go" is 1h 27m. I focused on comparing the concepts to ones in PHP so it's easier to relate to. Go gives us more control when it comes to memory management. For these parts, I found it easier to compare the concepts to those found in databases and ORMs.

This handy feature was added to laravel 5.3 last week, you can select specific columns to eagerload instead of having several select *

There's a big joy in writing ugly code that works and then refactoring it later. You get a mental reward when the code works, and another when you make it beautiful. I'll keep my spike and stabilize way of work forever 🤝

Hey everyone. I'm on Laracasts 🤩laracasts.com/series/guest-s…

Watching daddy on the big screen

I was so excited about PHP7.4 arrow functions I didn't notice this. Until @michaeldyrynda came.

Today I decided I want a better workspace in our small apartment. Wanted to get inspiration form the internet but it’s full of pictures of perfect dream-like setups inside mansions 🙂 so please share yours for real-life workspace setup.

Time spent working with AWS APIs: 20% reading AWS docs 10% writing code 70% try and error until the damn thing works

The career of a software/infrastructure engineer is mostly doing boring things and asking ridiculous questions in hopes of making order out of chaos and making light work of something. That’s when that satisfactory smile is put on our faces. Always a delight to read such blog posts.

Here you go. In this video I cover: - Managing multiple DB connections - Migrating & seeding tenants & admin databases - Running tests against tenant & admin databases - Connecting to the correct tenant on requests/jobs piped.video/watch?v=592EgykF…

Minor change but makes accessing pivot related attributes look much better.

Here’s something to brighten your Twitter feed a bit. He’s driving me crazy and keeping me sane at the same time.

Packing our stuff to move it to Cairo and I realized a few things: 1. My wife has too many stuff. 2. My son has way too many stuff. 3. I don't have anything 😅

Dusk = Browser Testing Envoy = Task Runner Horizon = Queues Manager Jetstream = Frontend Scaffolding Fortify = Headless auth backend Passport = OAuth2.0 Sanctum = Token-based auth Scout = Full-text search Socialite = OAuth providers integrations Telescope = Monitoring

I've been maintaining Forge for almost 5 years now. The work that's done behind the scenes is much more than what's visible to customers. In the past, I always wondered what SaaS with big teams do when they're stable & not releasing new features anymore. Maintenance work is a LOT

Hope you enjoyed your last morning coffee everyone fasting tomorrow. Ramadan Mubarak 🌙😊

If that's their idea on how to return "Hello World!" in PHP then yeah, I can see now why they think PHP is an ancient dead language 🤷🏽‍♂️

Coming to Horizon with Laravel 8.0 ♨️

I haven’t seen a more relevant clip on the internet yet. This one wins 🏆

Here are the slides from yesterday's talk speakerdeck.com/themsaid/the…

That’s how I solved it. Until he suddenly stopped liking the carrier 🤷‍♂️

If these terms sound confusing: - Static Generation - Server Side Rendering - Client Side Rendering - Single Page Applications - Time to First Byte - First Contentful Paint ... this video is for you. piped.video/nnXiXTYBIeU

✨ New Video: Learn about using Nginx and PHP-FPM to serve Laravel applications. piped.video/qEIN40C_1IY

Hey native english speaking friends. I really appreciate all your comments on my grammar and style of writing in my blog posts and tweets. Please don't hold yourself back, I appreciate the grammar police because it's how I learn and get better 🙂. Appreciate it 😊

27 years ago today, PHP was released. Many lives were changed that day.

Say hello to my new setup

✨New Video! - How broadcasting works - Using private channels with token-based auth - Excluding subscribers from the broadcast - Broadcasting events synchronously piped.video/zooUbo0tz6U

Check this out. A professional looking book cover with my name on it. What a dream 😊 Do you see the word written inside the elephant? Look closer.

There's a set of misconceptions about PHP when it's compared to Node. Mainly around its performance as it's not async and it terminates after every request. They all miss the presence of things like Swoole/Roadrunner/Octane... In speed, cost of dev, popularity, talent. PHP wins.

Speaking English: in my mind: 👨‍🏫 with friends: 😎 behind a mic: 🤡

You guys know I’m moving back to the city for a while. What you don’t know is that for the first time in my life I’ll have a dedicated work room. 😍

What a way to start the day 🙂 My biggest fear is to have someone thinking I took their hard-earned money & didn't deliver. That's why I'm easy about refunds & why I decided not to release many products in the past. Feedback like this makes me sleep better at night 🙂

I just published “Announcing ‘Diving Laravel’” medium.com/p/announcing-divi…

I'm a PHP developer, I don't have to worry about memory leaks 😎 a few years later... 😅 --- Jokes aside: high performance comes at a price. We do our best to keep the price minimal for you 💪🏽

Last week, I published a website to show how modern PHP looks like. It made it to the front page of Hacker News and started many interesting conversations. Today, I share a breakdown of how the code runs while refactoring it to make it more efficient. themsaid.com/code-on-go-with…