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title: "Launching Laravel Bytes"
description: "Fly is launching Laravel Bytes, a new publication focused on Laravel and on deploying Laravel applications across the globe. The announcement frames the site as a place for future discussions of global-user-base considerations, along with Laravel tips, strategies, how-tos, and coverage of Livewire and real-time apps. Laravel is supported by the fly launch command, and the documented quick start is to enter an existing Laravel app directory and run fly launch. A more comprehensive guide covers running Laravel on Fly with Redis, MySQL, queue workers, and cron tasks, while the post directs readers to deployment documentation and says a Laravel app can be launched in a few minutes."
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# Launching Laravel Bytes

[Fly.io](https://yomu.fyi/company/fly-io) · Jul 26, 2022

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Fly is launching Laravel Bytes, a new publication focused on Laravel and on deploying Laravel applications across the globe. The announcement frames the site as a place for future discussions of global-user-base considerations, along with Laravel tips, strategies, how-tos, and coverage of Livewire and real-time apps. Laravel is supported by the fly launch command, and the documented quick start is to enter an existing Laravel app directory and run fly launch. A more comprehensive guide covers running Laravel on Fly with Redis, MySQL, queue workers, and cron tasks, while the post directs readers to deployment documentation and says a Laravel app can be launched in a few minutes.

## Context

Fly is launching Laravel Bytes to support Laravel deployment across the globe and provide guidance on the considerations of serving a global user base.

## Approach / What changed

The site will publish Laravel tips, strategies, how-tos, and Livewire coverage. Laravel deployment is supported through the fly launch command, with documentation and a fuller guide covering Redis, MySQL, queue workers, and cron tasks.

## Takeaways

- Laravel is supported in the fly launch command, allowing an existing Laravel application to be launched with fly launch.
- A more detailed deployment guide covers Laravel applications using Redis, MySQL, queue workers, and cron tasks.
- Laravel Bytes is intended to cover global deployment considerations, Livewire, real-time apps, and other Laravel practices.

**Tags:** [Fly.io](https://yomu.fyi/topic/fly-io), [Laravel](https://yomu.fyi/topic/laravel)

- Source: [Fly.io](https://fly.io/blog/launching-laravel-bytes)
- Source URL: https://fly.io/blog/launching-laravel-bytes
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-02T11:57:42.480Z

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