This talk covers modular monoliths as an architectural approach for Laravel applications. The speaker discusses how to organize code into modules while maintaining the benefits of a monolithic application, exploring concepts like boundary definition, inter-module communication through events, and data ownership. He contrasts this with both traditional monoliths and microservices, explaining how modular monoliths can provide a middle ground that offers better code organization and team independence while avoiding the complexity of distributed systems.

A presentation about building real-time dashboards using Laravel, Livewire, and the Laravel Dashboard package. The speaker demonstrates how to create dynamic dashboard tiles that auto-refresh and display various data sources like Google Calendar events and Twitter feeds. The talk includes live coding demonstrations and explains the underlying architecture of the dashboard package.

Marcel Potiod presents a comprehensive overview of Laravel 7's new View Components feature. He demonstrates how to create and use class-based components, anonymous components, and inline components, showing various ways to pass data, handle attributes, and manage component rendering logic. The talk includes live coding examples of creating reusable UI components like sidebars, markdown renderers, and buttons.

Nuno presents Pest, an elegant PHP testing framework built on top of PHPUnit. The talk demonstrates how Pest simplifies testing syntax, reduces boilerplate code, and provides a more user-friendly experience through features like higher-order tests, datasets, and improved test coverage reporting. The framework maintains compatibility with existing PHPUnit tests while offering a more modern and concise testing API.

The talk covers several Laravel secrets and internal workings, focusing on exception handling, model attributes/relationships, and event handling. The speaker demonstrates how Laravel's exception handler works, explains the order of operations for model attribute access, and shows how to leverage Laravel's command events system for adding custom output to artisan commands.