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At Agiledrop, we’ve been long-time supporters of open source communities as well as our local development community. We’ve been hosting meetups, courses and other educational events for over a decade now, as well as giving talks at local and international technology events.
Working more and more closely with Laravel, supporting the great project and its awesome community has been an increasingly important focus for us in recent years. In addition to sponsoring conferences such as Laracon and Laravel Live, as well as projects such as Filament, we’ve also been regularly organizing local Laravel meetups in our office in Ljubljana.
Our latest Laravel Ljubljana meetup took place two weeks ago, on 2 December, and it might have been the best one yet. It was great seeing so many new faces together with so many regulars that we’ve known from our previous Laravel meetups, or our PHP meetups before that.
Such consistently great attendance with so many regular faces truly speaks to our commitment to providing the best value for the local development community, which reflects our high quality standards.
This time around was something special, however. With our fantastic speaker selection, we succeeded in more closely connecting the local Laravel community with the thriving international community. In case you weren’t able to attend, our three speakers were:
Josh Cirre, DevRel at Laravel, who joined us remotely with his session “How to Ship Faster with Laravel Cloud”. He shared practical tips and tricks about key features of Laravel Cloud that streamline modern app deployment – such as one-click autoscaling, managed databases, caching, storage, and security.
Harris Raftopoulos, Senior Software Engineer and Staff Writer at Laravel News. He joined us in person, coming from Laravel Vienna straight to our Laravel Ljubljana meetup the day after. In his talk, he showed how to build resilient queue systems that actually scale, survive failure, and recover gracefully. He covered things like retry strategies, worker scaling, and job prioritization, as well as monitoring tools like Horizon.
Blaž Oražem, CTO of the local Spletna prodaja, who presented Laravel’s native October CMS. He shared how his team migrated from a custom CMS to October CMS, what frustrations it solved, and how they now use it for everything from corporate websites to complex e-commerce and B2B platforms.
This meetup, dubbed Laravel Ljubljana by Harris Raftopoulos, represented a major step up in the kind of content, speakers, and overall event experience we aim to provide to attendees. As the initiators of Laravel-specific events in Slovenia, we feel a responsibility to keep improving our contribution to the growth and development of our local Laravel community.
In addition to future Laravel Ljubljana meetups, we’ll of course also keep organizing other meetups for developers and tech enthusiasts, such as our recent AI meetup. Now that we’ve broken the ice with two thirds of the speaker lineup being non-local Laravel developers, we’ll keep striving for the same level of quality and diversity, and guarantee many more memorable meetups for everyone.
Stay tuned for news about our next meetup in 2026 – we’re already looking forward to seeing you all there again!
