Flight booking mistakes, Laracon AU, and dead letters
From North Meets South Web Podcast by Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda
April 9, 2026 · 49 min · Episode 190
About this episode
Michael and Jake discuss travel mishaps, NCAA basketball, and building a centralized system for managing failed Laravel jobs.
In this episode, Michael and Jake catch up ahead of Laracon and share a wild travel story involving flight changes, third-party booking headaches, and expensive rebooking. Jake then shares a fun personal highlight: attending the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and watching Michigan win. The conversation shifts into development work, where Jake dives into building a centralised system for managing failed Laravel jobs across multiple applications. He explains the challenges of aggregating failed jobs without Horizon, how they built a custom package to expose APIs for inspecting and retrying jobs, and the nuances of Laravel's queue system. They also explore ideas for turning this work into a Laracon talk, emphasising practical, experience-driven content over purely technical deep dives. Show Links Laracon AU Laravel Horizon Sentry Dead Letter Queue (00:00) - Introduction and road to episode 200 (01:00) - Laracon plans and travel setup (02:00) - Flight booking disaster and schedule change (06:00) - Rebooking flights and unexpected costs (09:00) - Lessons learned with third-party bookings (10:00) - Michigan wins NCAA championship (12:30) - Midwest geography and personal background…
People in this episode
Hosts: Michael Dyrynda, Jacob Bennett
Topics covered
- flight booking mistakes
- Laracon AU
- development challenges
- Laravel jobs
- NCAA Championship
- travel experiences
- API development
Keywords
- flight booking
- Laracon
- Laravel
- NCAA
- failed jobs
- API
- travel story
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Laracon AU, NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Laravel, Laravel Horizon, Sentry, Dead Letter Queue
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