Laracon DB
Laracon DB
Bobby Bouwmann Bobby Bouwmann
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And has done the following talks:
Laravel Design Patterns (2017, 2018)

This talk focuses on design patterns in Laravel, particularly exploring the Factory Pattern, Builder Pattern, Strategy Pattern and Provider Pattern. The speaker uses a pizza ordering system as a practical example to demonstrate how these patterns can work together to create maintainable, flexible code. The talk includes concrete examples of implementing these patterns in Laravel applications and explains how they can be used to extend framework functionality.

Laravel Secrets (2020)

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.

Laravel at Scale (2023)

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.

Surviving Large Applications (2024)

Bobby Balman from Hospitable discusses strategies for maintaining and surviving large Laravel applications. He shares experiences from managing a large-scale Laravel application processing 51 million jobs daily, emphasizing the importance of consistent code structure, proper testing, and following Laravel defaults. The talk focuses on practical approaches to organizing code in domains/modules while keeping things simple and maintainable.

Pipeline Power-Up: Turning Complex Logic into Simple Steps (2025)
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Batchable Jobs (2023)
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Routing Laravel (2021)
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