The Laravel Podcast

The Architecture Behind Laravel Cloud with Chris Fidao

The Laravel Podcast

Show Notes

In this episode of the Laravel Podcast, host Matt Stauffer chats with Chris Fidao, Team Lead of Laravel’s Infrastructure Cloud Team. They talk about Chris’s journey from his first experience with Laravel to creating educational content and eventually leading an engineering team. Chris shares what it takes to build and maintain Laravel’s Cloud infrastructure, his approach to leadership and team growth, and his perspective on topics like serverless architecture and foreign key constraints. Matt Stauffer on Twitter Chris Fidao on Twitter Laravel Learn Laravel Twitter Laravel Website Tighten Website Suggestion Box

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