Dries Vints has posted a step-by-step guide for the Laravel users out there showing how to set up Laravel Horizon using Forge and Envoyer for the server management. Laravel Horizon is a frontend/backend interface for Laravel that makes working with Redis easier.

I recently installed Horizon for Laravel.io and while it wasn’t that hard to install, I still had to figure some things out. Since this was the first time setting everything up I thought I’d write up the steps to take to get started with Horizon and set everything up with Forge and Envoyer.

[...] Remember that this isn’t a guide that dives deep into Horizon, just enough to get it up and running. If you want more info about Horizon’s internals I suggest this excellent post by Mohamed Said.

The tutorial then walks through the six step process to get the full deployment flow set up:

• Step 1: Installation
• Step 2: Configuration
• Step 3: Scheduler
• Step 4: Authentication
• Step 5: Envoyer
• Step 6: Forge

When the setup and configuration is complete the deployment you'll end up with a Horizon environment ready to use. The post ends with a reminder for queue management and where to change the setting to be applied in the next deploy.

The latest episode of the Laravel News podcast, hosted by Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda, has posted their latest episode: Episode 43.

Jake and Michael return after a few weeks' hiatus to recap Laracon US 2017, the big reveal of Laravel Horizon, and catch up on the latest framework news.

You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.

The post also includes links to several of the topics and software mentioned in the episode. If you enjoy the show be sure to subscribe to their feed to get notifications when the latest episodes are released.

On the Laravel News site today they have a post announcing a new member of the Laravel family that was announced at the current Laracon conference: Laravel Horizon.

The moment everyone in the Laravel community has been waiting for has finally arrived! Laravel Horizon is software to “supercharge your queues with a beautiful dashboard and code-driven configuration.”

[...] Laravel Horizon is designed to make it easy monitor your queues from a web interface and receive notifications when things go wrong.

They list out some of the key features including auto-balancing, code-driven configuration, queue monitoring and a notification system. They briefly describe each of these features and what they see as the "most awesome part" - that the entire thing is open source and 100% free.

In a new blog post, Chris Hartjes asks what's the next stack coming up on the horizon. LAMP has been the king for so long now it's hard to think about what might be next, but he takes a stab at it:

So the next thing I've been wondering about is about what future PHP stacks will look like, at least on the open source side of things. Have we gotten to the point where this is as good as it gets?

He looks at other stacks he's been working with (like LNNP - Linux, nginx, Postgres and PHP) as well as the question of limitations. Are we limiting ourselves by relying on LAMP too much? What else is out there? Does Javascript have a permenant place in any of this? (jLAMP anyone?)