It is really really nice to use this for testing and local since any reseed work is quick. Overall the swap out is easy and I do not think, so far, there has been any issues going to mysql on production. The only two things to set over all is Seeding In my DatabaseSeeder.php file I set this <?php use Illuminate\Database\Seeder; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\App; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB; class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder { /** * Run the database seeds.