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👨‍🚀 Engineering Team Lead at @laravel.com 👨🏻‍💻 Building @cachethq.io 🤝 Organising @phpstoke.co.uk

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Nov 11

Hey, I’m James 👋

I’m an engineering team lead at Laravel, working on Laravel Forge, Envoyer and Vapor.

Here are some of my projects:
- artisan.page
- cachethq.io
- checkmango.com
- james.brooks.page/projects

I've given a few talks, which you can find on my blog at james.brooks.page/speaking

Projects that I've created.

james.brooks.page

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 15

🚦 Forge now has its own dedicated status page: status.on-forge.com

Laravel Forge Status

Welcome to Laravel Forge's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

status.on-forge.com

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 8

Laravel VPS is a new server provider in Forge, that's easy to get started with and provides instantly available servers. From zero to deployed in a minute.

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 8

Excited about the next generation of Laravel Forge? So are we! Sign up for the Early Access list at vps.laravel.com

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 8

The Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet now displays option default values 🧠

artisan.page

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

We previously looked into this but an IPv6 only server isn’t useful. Most services still don’t accept only IPv6, which means you can’t do a great deal.

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

We're similar in design (based on Laravel's design language) but we share no code. We're using Vue, while Cloud uses React for example.

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

We've been working on this set of updates for just over a year now. There's been a lot of work involved!

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

Just because you were #1 on HackerNews 😉

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

I think you're confused with the OSS team lead. Now *he* is a looker!

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

The new API is cool, the command palette has even more features I could show and we’ve completely revamped domains.

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

It's all hand-rolled, so we're able to deeply integrate it within Forge!

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

Yes, but Forge won't have that initially. It's a big change within Forge as a site belongs to one server currently. It's on our roadmap though!

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

Ah-ha! You and me both, I'd be out of a job 😂

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

Hetzner is cheaper, but Laravel VPS is built on DigitalOcean, so we provide more regions etc.

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

Deciding what features to cut for launch 😅

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

It's Forge-exclusive 😊

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

Nope, everything is staying the same for now!

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

Yes! Introducing organizations means a lot of things have changed. As such, we’ll also be releasing a new API. It’s built to be performant, it’s paginated, it’s JSON API spec compliant and has new documentation to go with it.

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 6

Curious about the next generation of @laravel.com Forge? Ask your questions 👇

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 5

Something we didn't show in the Laracon US keynote is that Forge now keeps a log of when you run recipes. Now, you can see when and what servers a recipe was run on.

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Laravel News @laravelnews.com · Aug 4

One minute with @jbrooks.uk at #laracon

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 1

I am incredibly proud of the Forge team and all their hard work!

Unfortunately, some of the team were unable to join us at Laracon but all played a huge part in making Forge more awesome.

Incredible work 👏

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Aug 1

Thanks Rasmus!

James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · Jun 21

Oh boy, what a way to end the week 🚀
I can’t wait for LaraconUS!

Reposted by James Brooks

Laravel @laravel.com · Jun 17

While you slept, Nightwatch was on guard.