A comprehensive talk about bringing Laravel's best practices and components to legacy PHP applications through incremental improvements rather than complete rewrites. The speaker discusses how to modernize existing codebases by gradually introducing modern PHP practices, Laravel components, and external services while maintaining operational stability.

The speaker discusses strategies for modernizing and refactoring legacy PHP applications. He covers the challenges of dealing with old, poorly structured codebases and presents a methodical approach to upgrading them using the 'strangler fig' pattern. The talk emphasizes the importance of securing buy-in, implementing code standards gradually, and carefully migrating functionality to new systems while maintaining business operations.