At start, it is very scary to tinker with server resources to assemble them properly to make a running web app work like Laravel. For starters, it is very tempted to just resize the droplet and be good with it; but the resources you want to increase also increases other…

Facade Design Pattern: Facade pattern hides the complexities of the system and provides an interface to the client using which the client can access the system. It flies right over my head huh! So what Facade design pattern is essentially saying is that I will provide huge functionality to you, you just have…

If you look into the .env file for your Laravel project, you may find default queue driver for Laravel is sync; QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync That’s Laravel’s way of saying don’t do anything and run on the main thread; and if you have a long running task on your thread like firing an…

We seen rapid growth in business and before we know it we had consumed 83% of our assigned storage space on our package with Digital Ocean. We needed to take ACTION. Dilemmas: 1) We didn’t have much time to go for storage space increase and needed a fail safe plan to…

Option 1 — Change on front-end: (Preferred) The idea is that you always stored your time in UTC in database and then you convert it on front-end; it’s nothing specific to Laravel. Suppose a user registers in London, travel to New York and then come back. In New York we don’t want to present him/her with London…