#aws
7 postsI've been exploring using Amazon Location Service as an alternative to Google Maps and Mapbox. It has a number of core features like…
I've known about Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration for a while but haven't had a good use-case. In brief, this feature allows you to speed up…
Hooking up a CDN with Laravel cloud storage (Flysystem)
I've recently finished converting all our legacy S3 storage code into leveraging Laravel's out-of-the-box Flysystem integration. I was able…
Prevent Laravel Forge servers losing track of time
I recently ran into an issue where our Laravel Forge servers were falling out of sync with the actual time, some getting up to 5 minutes…
Multiple read-only database slaves in Laravel
See an updated post on multiple read-slaves here. Having recently moved one of our applications to AWS I've discovered how easy it is to…
Getting started with Laravel on AWS
To kick off a new series on scaling Laravel on AWS I want to start with discussing Forge and the AWS platform. If you've been following…
Laravel 4 on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
I've been doing a bit of research into AWS Elastic Beanstalk recently as an alternative to our current hosting arrangement. Elastic…