120: Taylor Otwell - Serverless Laravel with Vapor

Topics include:

• What is serverless?
• What AWS services Vapor manages and how they are billed
• Using a single RDS instance with multiple databases
• Understanding cold boots with Lambda and how to minimize the effect they have on your application's performance
• Performance on Vapor
• How queues work with Vapor
• Tuning your queue concurrency based on your database connection limit
• Strategies for preventing your web instances and queue instances from competing for resources
• How scheduled tasks work with Vapor
• How file uploads work with Vapor
• Limitations when running code on Lambda and strategies for working around them

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Links:

• Laravel Vapor
• Intro to Laravel Vapor, Taylor's talk at Laracon

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