Software development has always moved in cycles. We build, we scale, we fragment — and then we look for ways to simplify again. For years, the accepted path to multi-platform success was duplication. If you wanted your product available on web, desktop, and mobile, you prepared yourself for three stacks, three pipelines, and three parallel […]
In today’s web applications, users expect instant updates — whether it’s a new message, order status change, comment, or system alert. Real-time notifications improve engagement, user experience, and responsiveness. In this blog, we’ll learn how to build a real-time notification system in Laravel using: Let’s break it down in a simple and practical way. What […]
Laravel’s built-in event system is elegant, expressive, and productive. For many applications, it is more than enough. But as platforms grow — more users, more services, more real-time needs — traditional queue based events start to show their limits. This is where Apache Kafka fits naturally into the Laravel ecosystem. This article explains how Kafka […]
Cron jobs are the go to tools for developers to run scheduled tasks/jobs. A cron job is a Linux tool used for scheduling tasks to be executed at scripted times. Maintaining and managing cron jobs outside the application is a maintainability headache. Also, SSH access is required to edit cron entries. Laravel’s command scheduler is […]
Worked on multiple projects for App Us Ltd, New Zealand: TagBook: An Android and PHP project for Livestock Farm management Spindle7: A complicated integration of multiple services via their APIs: Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, Xero, ZenDesk, FreshBooks, MailChimp, Adwords Technology: Android, PHP, MySQL, SOAP, Swipe HQ Payment Gateway, REST, JSON, Web Services, API […]
Deluxe Corporation is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Minnesota. AdTraction is a complex, but well designed application to manage 3rd party marketing campaigns in adwords (Google), adcenter (Bing) etc. vBridge executed the design, development, support as well as maintenance phases of this ongoing project. Technologies: PHP, mySql, Web Services, SOAP, XML, Adwords, Adcenter, Subversion, […]