Blog

This page lists all of the blog posts, you can also browse posts by category:
October 30, 2020

Exploring Elasticsearch with Laravel Scout

Searching in Laravel is very easy with Laravel Scout, but it only ships with an Algolia driver. Because Elasticsearch is fun, powerful and can also be self-hosted I created a Elasticsearch driver for Laravel Scout, it is called Explorer....
Read
May 20, 2020

Dockerizing a Laravel application in 15 minutes

Docker is a very cool tool for development. In this post I will explain how you could have your Laravel application running inside a Docker container within 15 minutes. I will skip the step of explaining what Docker is and why you would want to Dockerize...
Read
January 5, 2020

Kubernetes at a glance

Kubernetes is a zero-downtime deployment strategy for any application running in (Docker) containers. Right here I intend to keep an overview of the basic but important concepts for Kubernetes to make it easier to learn and comprehend. Here is a short...
Read
December 6, 2019

How to install TailwindCSS in Laravel

Every time I start a new project with Laravel and TailwindCSS I end up reading through a couple of readme's and guides to find the best way to set it up. To make it easier for myself, and perhaps others, I documented the steps here. 1) First of all, I...
Read