In this episode, Michael and Jake catch up ahead of Laracon and share a wild travel story involving flight changes, third-party booking headaches, and expensive rebooking.

Jake then shares a fun personal highlight: attending the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and watching Michigan win.

The conversation shifts into development work, where Jake dives into building a centralised system for managing failed Laravel jobs across multiple applications. He explains the challenges of aggregating failed jobs without Horizon, how they built a custom package to expose APIs for inspecting and retrying jobs, and the nuances of Laravel's queue system.

They also explore ideas for turning this work into a Laracon talk, emphasising practical, experience-driven content over purely technical deep dives.

Show Links

• Laracon AU
• Laravel Horizon
• Sentry
• Dead Letter Queue

• (00:00) - Introduction and road to episode 200