james-carpenter.bsky.social
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It’s been a year today since I walked on stage at @laracon.au 2024 and opened up about my experiences with depression and anxiety.

Mental health should be talked about.

And with 2025’s conference just days away, a reminder to be aware of those around you who feel invisible.

youtu.be/0kwNx93aha0
Marty Friedel - The Invisible Developer - Laracon AU 2024
YouTube video by Laracon AU
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Curious about what makes Nightwatch tick?

@jessarcher.bsky.social and I have detailed how we put together a low touch, high throughput, realtime analytics stack using AWS and ClickHouse cloud. Read our AWS Big Data blog here -

aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-da...
How Laravel Nightwatch handles billions of observability events in real time with Amazon MSK and ClickHouse Cloud | Amazon Web Services
Laravel, one of the world’s most popular web frameworks, launched its first-party observability platform, Laravel Nightwatch, to provide developers with real-time insights into application performance...
aws.amazon.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Proud to announce that we've launched our first APAC datacentre for Nightwatch - and it just happens to be the beautiful city I call home 🙃

Sydney region - live now nightwatch.laravel.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Running Laravel in a container? Want to use Nightwatch?

Good news - it just got easier!

Official Laravel Nightwatch agent image now live at: hub.docker.com/r/laravelphp...
Detailed docs available at: nightwatch.laravel.com/docs/guides/...

🦹 🚢 🚀🚀🚀
Docker - Laravel Nightwatch
Get started with Nightwatch in containerized environments.
nightwatch.laravel.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This year's gonna be a banger... Get signed up!
We’ve worked really hard this year to put together a lineup of amazing speakers and connected topics so you #LevelUp like never before!
Speaker season is right around the corner…

We can’t wait to share our lineup for 2025!
July 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
We've had a fair number of requests for Nightwatch setup instructions on Vapor, so we put together a guide to help get you started.

Nightwatch 🤝 Vapor

nightwatch.laravel.com/docs/guides/...
Laravel Vapor - Laravel Nightwatch
Get started with Nightwatch on Vapor
nightwatch.laravel.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
SUPER proud to say that today we have launched Laravel Nightwatch!

I feel very privileged to be working with this incredible team 🥰
We just shipped Nightwatch: application monitoring & logging obsessively optimized for Laravel.

✨ Start with a single command
📊 Monitor every event
⏱️ Review precise timelines & logs
⚠️ Hear less noise with smart alerts

And much more, including a free plan for anywhere you deploy Laravel apps.
June 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Seriously considering CDK for Terraform to escape the syntax gymnastics of vanilla TF... 🤸🏻‍♂️

Anyone given it a go already?
March 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Just realised the only Microsoft product I've used regularly in the last 5 years is VSCode... And I stopped using that over a year ago 🤔
March 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
📣📣 Infra/DevOps fam, who wants to come work on some amazing tech at Laravel? Hiring for the Nightwatch team (APAC timezone) now... Apply here: apply.workable.com/laravel/j/AB...
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (APAC) - Laravel
Laravel is looking for the next Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our, all-remote Laravel Nightwatch and Cloud infrastructure team. For this role we're only considering applications in the UTC+8 ...
apply.workable.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
A few days ago I fired up Laravel new with my Dad, and in ~45 minutes explained what it does by making a simple to-do app with Breeze/Filament.

Yesterday in literally 5 minutes we had it deploying on push to Laravel Cloud, with a postgres DB...

This is next level accessible 🤯
December 27, 2024 at 4:28 PM