The Laravel Podcast The Making of Laravel Cloud: Behind the Scenes with Joe Dixon
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May 12, 2025 Joe Dixon, Engineering Team Lead at Laravel Cloud, shares his fascinating journey from coding to managing teams. He unveils the challenges of building Laravel Cloud, including billing complexities and handling traffic spikes. With insights on safety mechanisms, he emphasizes the critical role of Cloudflare in DDoS protection. Joe also explores innovative architecture involving gRPC and job queues, and wraps up with a memorable highlight from Laracon featuring an impressive drone demo, showcasing the innovative spirit within the Laravel community.
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From Coder to Team Lead
- Joe Dixon's role at Laravel shifted from hands-on code to engineering team lead as Laravel Cloud grew.
- Small rapid iteration teams evolved to larger organized teams managing complex projects.
Discovering Laravel Journey
- Joe Dixon first heard about Laravel at an Expression Engine conference and quickly became hooked.
- He convinced his company to switch from Expression Engine to Laravel, cementing his Laravel career path.
Vapor as DevOps Silver Bullet
- Joe joined Vapor two years after launch and found it to be a 'silver bullet' for DevOps challenges.
- Vapor eliminated weekend worries about server uptime and scale, making deployments bulletproof.