Jess Archer
@jessarcher
✓ Verified Speaker
🌍 4 continents
15
Laracons
4
Continents
12
Spoke at
2018
First Laracon
been there
Been there
2026
Laravel Live Japan
🎤 Spoke
2026
Laracon EU
Was there
2026
Laracon IN
🎤 Spoke
2025
Laracon EU
🎤 Spoke
2025
Laracon AU
🎤 Spoke
2024
Laracon US
🎤 Spoke
2024
Laracon IN
🎤 Spoke
2024
Laracon EU
Was there
2024
Laracon AU
🎤 Spoke
2023
Laracon IN
🎤 Spoke
2023
Laracon AU
🎤 Spoke
2023
Laracon US
🎤 Spoke
Summer 2020
Laracon Online
🎤 Spoke
2019
Laracon US
Was there
2019
Laracon AU
🎤 Spoke
2018
Laracon AU
Was there
🎤 Spoke at
2026
Laracon IN
🎤 Spoke
2026
Laravel Live Japan
🎤 Spoke
2025
Laracon EU
🎤 Spoke
2025
Laracon AU
🎤 Spoke
2024
Laracon US
🎤 Spoke
2024
Laracon AU
🎤 Spoke
2024
Laracon IN
🎤 Spoke
2023
Laracon US
🎤 Spoke
2023
Laracon AU
🎤 Spoke
2023
Laracon IN
🎤 Spoke
Summer 2020
Laracon Online
🎤 Spoke
2019
Laracon AU
🎤 Spoke
Talks
Inside Nightwatch: Real-Time Analytics at Scale (2026)
Inside Nightwatch: Real-Time Analytics at Scale (2026)
Nightwatch Returns (2025)
TBA (2025)
Analyzing Analytical Databases (2024)
Jess Archer presents a detailed comparison between traditional OLTP databases like MySQL and analytical (OLAP) databases, focusing on ClickHouse. She demonstrates performance differences using a Stack Overflow dataset of 60M rows, showing how analytical databases excel at aggregation queries while traditional databases are better for row-level operations. The talk includes live demonstrations of query performance and explains internal workings of column-oriented vs row-oriented database storage.
Introducing Nightwatch (2024)
Laravel Team Q&A (2024)
Laravel Pulse: Behind the Scenes (2024)
Unveiling Laravel Prompts (2023)
Jess Archer presents Laravel Prompts, a new PHP package for creating beautiful and user-friendly CLI prompts. The talk demonstrates various types of prompts (text input, passwords, confirmations, selections) and how they improve upon Symphony's existing prompts with features like validation, placeholders, and better UX. She shows practical examples of how these prompts are being integrated into Laravel's core functionality, including the Laravel installer and artisan commands.
Introducing Laravel Pulse (2023)
Jess Archer presents Laravel Pulse, a new free and open-source performance monitoring and insights tool designed specifically for Laravel applications. The talk demonstrates Pulse's features including monitoring system stats, queues, cache usage, slow queries, and exceptions. She shows how to customize the dashboard, configure sampling rates, and create custom cards while emphasizing Pulse's low overhead and production-readiness.
Laravel Team Q&A (2023)
Building a Service Container From Scratch (2023)
The Laravel developer's guide to Vue SPAs - part 2 (2020)
The Laravel developer's guide to Vue SPAs (2019)
Jess Archer shares her experience building a single page application (SPA) with Laravel and Vue.js, focusing on practical solutions to common challenges. She discusses authentication approaches, state management with Vuex, and frontend optimization techniques based on lessons learned while building Giftie Duck, a gift reminder service.