North Meets South Web Podcast

North Meets South Web Podcast

By Jacob Bennett and Michael DyryndaTechnology
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North Meets South Web Podcast episodes

  • Refactor a legacy UI, then ping me

    Jake and Michael discuss the perils of refactoring the UI of a legacy app, and the SaaS they've been working on; thenping.me

    This episode is sponsored by Makeable.

    This episode was streamed live.

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    • Refactoring UI
    • Selling stuff on a busy beach by Justin Jackson
    • Monitoring Laravel scheduled tasks with thenping.me
    47 min
  • Basecamp, old people names, and managing issues

    We start the episode with a bit of rambling, slip in some state machines, talk about old mates Ethyl, Beryl, and Dean, and get into discussing how we each manage the barrage of feature requests from our customers.

    Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Andreas Hubenthal!

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    • Basecamp
    • No Plans To Merge
    • Laracon US
    • 41 min
    • Scaling databases, dispatching jobs, and taking charge of teams

      Jake and Michael discus the perils of scaling the MySQL database for an application, the handiness of dispatching jobs, and taking charge of development teams.

      Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Makeable!

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      • MySQL slow query log
      • Postgres query planner
      • MySQL EXPLAIN
      • ProxySQL
        • Can't create more than max_prepared_stmt_count statements with ProxySQL
        • Laravel.io codebase
        • 45 min
        • Theodor Geisel, complex validation, and compiled assets in git

          Michael and Jake discuss the books of Theodor Geisel, complex validation and when to reach for form requests, and discuss whether or not you might store compiled assets in your version control.

          Thanks to CTO Sumo for sponsoring this episode!

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          • Theodor Seuss Geisel
          • Fox in Socks
          • Form request validation
          • Dealing with compiled files in git
          • Laravel self-diagnosis by Marcel Pociot
          • 54 min
          • Getting Shifty with JMac

            In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by JMac to discuss maintainable code, keeping your Laravel codebase up to date, and more.

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            • JMac (Jason McCreary)
            • Laravel Shift
            • BaseCode
            • Laravel by the numbers
            • Practicing YAGNI
            • Shift like a pro
            • Shifty Coders
            • Workshops by JMac
            • Jesse Schutt
            • YouTube
            • Website
            • Michael's Laravel style guide
            • 1 hr 5 min
            • Laracon Online, payment processing, and handling webhooks

              Jake and Michael recap Laracon Online, event sourcing, payment processing, sharing migrations and models, and handling webhooks.

              Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Makeable!

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              • Laravel event projector
              • EventSauce
              • Laravel EventSauce
              • Stripe
              • Nomad
              • Vagabond
              • Composer platform config
              • 56 min
              • Logging stacks, proxying SQL, and database clusters

                In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss logging stacks in Laravel, ProxySQL and Galera Cluster, and state machines (which have started to grow on Michael)

                Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Andreas Hubenthal!

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                • Logging stacks
                • Galera Cluster
                • ProxySQL
                • MySQL binary logging
                • 1 hr 15 min

                About North Meets South Web Podcast

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                Jake Bennett and Michael Dyrynda conquer a 14.5 hour time difference to talk about life as web developers