Patrick Riemer

Thoughts on Laravel, cloud infrastructure, and software engineering.

Enterprise application development · WhatsApp Business API · Automation · Training

TimeTie

TimeTie: A Simple Global Team Scheduling App

TimeTie is an affordable scheduling app that helps coordinate meetings across time zones. It provides a visual timeline and calendar export functionality to make finding suitable meeting times easier for distributed teams.

OCI Object Storage

Using OCI Object Storage in Laravel

This article describes how you can use OCI Object Storage in your Laravel 11 application.

OCI

Laravel and Object Storage on OCI

Recently there is a lot of buzz around Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) because of their generous "Always Free Tier"...

Flutter SSL

Flutter SSL error with Laravel Herd

I was working on a Flutter project in the iOS simulator that was not able to connect to my Laravel API hosted on Herd.

AWS Lightsail

Laravel on Lightsail Containers

I recently tried to get Laravel 11 running on AWS Lightsail Container. Mostly because I wanted to know how feasible it is for smaller production projects.

Deployments

Speed up deployments

When you are deploying a Laravel application with Laravel Forge, Ploi, AWS Code Build or similar the installation of composer and node dependencies can take a long time.

Multi-language

Multi-language Laravel with VueJS

Use Laravel translations with a VueJS frontend. In many cases you won't need to localize your web-application early on, but we are over-engineering our application.

OrbStack

OrbStack for Laravel development

Recently there are more and more developers giving OrbStack a try. It promises to be a drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop.

UUID

UUID as primary key for Laravel eloquent models

Have you ever deployed an application using the default primary keys in Laravel only to find out a week later that you have 10 million records in one table?

AWS

Basic setup for a new AWS account

Setting up a brand new AWS account using organizations with basic security.