Richard Merryweather - Cultivating success with Laravel - Laracon AU 2023

Join Richard Merriweather, Head of Engineering at Figured, as he delves into cultivating success with Laravel. Explore Laravel’s role in fintech, and how Figured uses it to assist farmers in managing their finances effectively.
00:00 Intro
00:34 Figured
01:11 Fintech
01:53 Rails to Laravel
02:17 Farm finances
03:02 Maximising profits
04:24 Laravel enables growth
04:46 Happy developers
05:09 Fertiliser example
06:41 Simple complexity
07:05 2015 Technology choices
07:42 Architectural issues
08:01 Rails not to blame
08:45 Common problems
09:24 Scary releases
10:22 Needed rewrite
10:46 Tech considerations
11:20 Laravel chosen
12:57 Enabling quick rewrite
13:25 Laravel ecosystem
14:45 Swiss Army knife
15:27 Best libraries
15:59 Forge released
16:04 Success today
16:37 Market expansion
17:20 Beyond just SaaS
17:44 Fast new products
17:58 10 million cows
18:46 Releasing daily
19:15 Juniors can release
19:40 Laravel scales
20:55 Full history stored
21:18 Helping farmers
21:49 Correcting past mistakes
22:38 Friend's wrong choice
23:14 Right choice
23:49 Enabling value
24:23 Don't lose sight
24:33 Thank you

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