No Compromises Joel Clermont and Aaron Saray

"Magic" methods and properties show up several places in Laravel, as well as third-party packages. They can make certain things easier and less verbose, but there is a trade off. In this episode, we discuss a few different contexts where we like and avoid magic accessors.
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Admins can do everything in the app, right? Today we discuss a couple reasons why you may want to consider not letting an admin have access to every single feature in your app.
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Have you ever turned on error tracking in a long-lived app and then got overwhelmed by all the errors happening? We talk through some strategies to not get overwhelmed and make a case that you really should be monitoring this in production.
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(00:00) - Your app should be tracking errors

(02:30) - Better than just parsing logs

(05:15) - Don't get overwhelmed when you first turn it on

(06:00) - How to triage and prioritize

(07:30) - Know about performance issues

(10:30) - Silly bit

We've talked about coding standards before, but this time we approach it from a slightly different angle. Does the way you're code is formatted affect your ability to understand it? Brains are interesting things.
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You launched a hobby project and then it starts to get some traction. What next? How do you get a more solid foundation under your app when it comes to database hosting? In this episode, we discuss the common phases we see a database go through during an app's life.
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Interfaces are a great tool for writing maintainable applications, but it is possible to go "too far" with abstraction. Or maybe, it's a bad use of time to write an abstraction up front before you really know you need it. We discuss some trade-offs and examples.

(00:00) - Life before interfaces in PHP

(02:30) - Going too far with interfaces

(04:45) - A discussion with payment gateways

(07:30) - Abstracting the database as another trap

(09:15) - Laravel makes good use of interfaces

(10:05) - Silly bit
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