We've done a similar upgrade -- once from ZF1 and once from CodeIgniter -- and it took a lot of hard work to make this up as we went. This talk would've been hugely helpful. Great and well-presented talk!
Very helpful :) great to have an insight that's not necessarily at code level - shame about time running short!
Another great Laravel talk by Matt. One of the best Laravel educators and community champions.
I would listen to Matt all day, so many brilliant thoughts and so many notes taken, will probably write an article on my LaravelDaily blog after the event.
I've given a talk about the Laravel container before, and I still learned a few key things during this talk--great work here!