The Laravel Survival Guide Exclusive -
It’s 9:58 PM. You just pushed what you thought was a tiny hotfix: “Update user avatar validation.”
Now go fix that avatar upload. And next time? Deploy at 11 AM on Tuesday. the laravel survival guide
Three minutes later, your phone buzzes. Then again. Then the Slack channel erupts. “500 error on profile uploads.” “Jobs stuck in failed table.” “Why is S3 returning AccessDenied?” Welcome to Laravel after dark. Here’s your survival guide for this exact moment. Don’t open the controller. Don’t blame Redis. It’s 9:58 PM
The 10 PM Deployment Rule
Add this temporarily to AppServiceProvider@boot : the laravel survival guide
After any .env change, run:
