Faysal AzizFA-0283DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureData & Analytics
Laravel Evolution
From Foundation to Advanced Intelligent Production in 5 days
Introduction
Why this course
This five‑day program begins by reinforcing key Laravel fundamentals—essential for ensuring solid foundations—then progresses into production-grade deployment practices on Linux, significant enhancements in Laravel 11, and advanced topics like RESTful APIs, JWT authentication, event-driven architecture, and building a recommendation engine using machine learning. The instructor’s 30+ years of experience promise immediate, practical value—no unnecessary theory.
Delivered by a seasoned expert with 30+ years of industry experience. The program emphasizes outcome-driven methods, production-ready practices, and real-world solutions over academic theory.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Build a Laravel application from ground up, quickly reinforcing core features.
- Deploy Laravel securely and optimally on Linux environments.
- Understand major changes and leverage new capabilities introduced in Laravel 11.
- Construct robust RESTful APIs with JWT-based authentication.
- Employ events, queues, and real-time features using Laravel Reverb.
- Integrate ML to create a recommendation engine.
- Apply patterns and operational best practices for scalable production systems.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
- Basic familiarity with Laravel (version 10+).
- General understanding of Linux, Git, and Composer.
- Some experience with databases and PHP (8.x).
- Eagerness to extend Laravel into production and advanced backend systems.
Training outline
8 modules
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011. Refreshing Laravel Fundamentals4 topics
- Installing Laravel via Composer; environment setup with .env.
- MVC architecture, routing, controllers, views, Blade templating.
- Basic Eloquent ORM: relations, querying, migration/seeding.
- Form requests and validation; intro to middleware.
022. Linux Production‑Ready Deployment6 topics
- Server prerequisites: PHP 8.2+, required extensions, Composer, Git.
- Configure Nginx/Apache, SSL (Certbot), and document root security.
- File and folder permissions, SSH key setup, environment hardening.
- PHP‑FPM tuning, supervisor for queue workers.
- CI/CD integration (GitHub Actions/Jenkins); using Laravel Forge or custom scripts.
- Containerization (Docker) and serverless options.
033. Transitioning from Laravel 10 to 11 (and vice versa)7 topics
- Official release timeline, support schedule.
- Slimmer skeleton: consolidated routes, middleware, and exceptions.
- Optional API and broadcasting scaffolding.
- New defaults: Pest testing, SQLite, min PHP 8.2 requirement.
- New make: commands (enum, interface, class).
- Introduced features: health route (/up), rate limiting per-second, Dumpable trait, model casts() method, once() helper, automatic policy discovery.
- Laravel Reverb (WebSocket) overview.
044. Advanced Application Architecture4 topics
- Event-driven design: events, listeners, dispatching, and testing.
- Queue usage: Redis/Beanstalkd, backoff, retries.
- Introduce Laravel Reverb for real-time features.
- Service-repository patterns; injecting dependencies; action classes; debugging using Dumpable.
055. RESTful APIs & JWT Authentication4 topics
- Designing API controllers, resources, and resource collections.
- Implement JWT authentication using Tymon/JWT‑Auth; manage tokens, refresh logic, and scopes.
- Compare Sanctum vs JWT; secure endpoints; validation and error handling.
- API versioning, throttling/rate limiting strategies.
066. Machine Learning Integration: Recommendation Engine5 topics
- Overview of ML techniques: collaborative filtering, feature pipelines.
- Using PHP‑ML libraries or external Python microservices.
- Data preparation and integration through Eloquent models.
- Build recommendation logic (similarity matrices, model training).
- Expose recommendation API, implement retraining schedule.
077. Performance, Monitoring & Scaling5 topics
- Caching plan: config, route, view cache strategies.
- DB optimization: indexing, query profiling, eager loading limits.
- Application logging, metrics, and external monitoring tools (ELK, Honeybadger).
- Health route usage, uptime checks in Kubernetes or load-balanced environments.
- Queue scaling and horizontal scaling patterns.
088. Migration Roadmap & Wrap-Up3 topics
- Discuss upgrade process 10 → 11; common pitfalls and dependency issues.
- Rollback strategies and deployment safety nets.
- Q\&A, recap, and next steps for participants' own projects.
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