Shipping Laravel + Vue platforms at campus scale
Published Aug 5, 2025
Lessons from building learning and event platforms used by tens of thousands of students and faculty.
Laravel and Vue remain a sharp combo for campus platforms: fast iteration on the backend, approachable frontends for internal teams, and a mature ecosystem for auth, queues, and jobs.
At scale, invest early in observability, background jobs for certificates and emails, and clear ownership boundaries between product squads. Pair feature work with runbooks — the 2 a.m. enrollment issue will come.
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