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Mohamed Said
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@themsaid
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themsaid.com
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Apr 5, 2022
    Have some personal news... My time at Laravel has come to an end. In 5 years & 6 months I've got to work with brilliant people & learned a lot. Now it's time to go back to being a Laravel user & one of its biggest fans. Had to wait till after April fool's day to write this 😀
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    May 10, 2023
    It's time. gowithphp.com
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Jul 31, 2023
    For many years, I considered all talk about scale to be irrelevant. If you throw enough money at it, any web stack can scale to handle more traffic. With an abundance of free investor money, I've always believed that startups should choose the stack that allows them to move
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Mar 17, 2023
    These past 12 months were the most intense: - Lost >60% of my life savings - Left my country for good - Lost my place at Laravel - Gained 15 kilos after being athletic most of my life Haven't shared my yearly review for 2 years. So here's my share. themsaid.com/journal/lesson…
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Feb 5, 2021
    Coming to Laravel next week: Add multiple columns after a specific column.
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Oct 24, 2023
    One month since switching from Lambda to EC2. Cost savings are hundreds of thousands of dollars on annual basis. We haven't used reserved instances yet, and I'm convinced that by moving a few more endpoints from PHP to Go, we could reduce the number of instances to half.
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    May 11, 2022
    Hello, I’m VP of Engineering at foodics.com; a cloud-based POS & payment solutions provider that operates on a large scale & is mostly based on Laravel. Two massive monolith apps maintained by 8 teams & handling several millions of requests every hour. (1/3)
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Jun 7, 2021
    It's here 🎉 A complete series covering Laravel queues @laracasts - Configurations - Handling Failures - Complex Workflows - Best Practices - Deployments - Scaling - & How it works Check it out: laracasts.com/series/laravel…
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Feb 19, 2023
    Scalability is overrated. Maintainability is underrated.
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Aug 19, 2020
    Finally Certified! 🎉
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Aug 27, 2020
    I'm beyond excited to share with you that "Laravel Queues in Action" is now available! 🚀 Learn how to utilize the power of queues to make your applications faster & more reliable while reducing costs. Thanks for your support 🤗 & hope you like it! learn-laravel-queues.com
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Jun 8, 2021
    Laravel is 10 year old tomorrow! Here’s the first commit: github.com/laravel/larave…
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Sep 21, 2023
    Daily costs while moving from Lambda to EC2 for a high traffic service. More than 50% cost savings so far.
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    Mohamed Said
    Laravel
    @themsaid
    Nov 3, 2021
    If you're learning PHP, or want to refresh your knowledge, we've put together this guide to PHP in 2021/2022. It explains: - Variables & Data Types - Functions - Control Structures - Object-Oriented Programming - Enums - Frameworks Check it out 🤟🏽 youtu.be/YrWXClIMph4
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