Trybe, a hotel spa booking platform processing 500 million requests/month, migrated from Laravel Vapor to Laravel Private Cloud without dropping a single request. A Q&A from their technical webinar covers key migration topics: minimal code changes were needed (mainly auditing Vapor-specific abstractions and environment variables), performance improved significantly (report endpoints dropped from 30s to 10s), and costs are expected to drop ~40%. The post explains why weighted DNS via Route 53 was used instead of a load balancer for live traffic splitting, compares Laravel Nightwatch to Sentry for Laravel-native observability, and details when Private Cloud makes sense over standard Laravel Cloud (compliance, private VPC connectivity, dedicated hardware). Deployment differences between Vapor's YAML-driven CLI and Cloud's git-driven Docker-based approach are also covered.
