Optimize Bulk Insertions with Laravel's New fillAndInsert() Method
Laravel’s new fillAndInsert() method enables bulk insertions while applying model casting, timestamps, and UUID generation.
Read more [www.harrisrafto.eu]
Impact, agency, and taste
Many of the most effective people I’ve worked with also do the most metacognition, i.e., reflecting on their own (and their team’s) work and thought processes, and figuring out how to improve them.
Read more [www.benkuhn.net]
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Running PHP tests in parallel on GitHub actions original
A couple of years ago, Laravel introduced a great feature which allows to run PHPUnit / Pest tests in parallel. This results in a big boost in performance.
By default, it determines the concurrency level by taking a look at the number of CPU cores your machine has. So, if you're using a modern Mac that has 10 CPU cores, it will run 10 tests at the same time, greatly cutting down on the time your testsuite needs to run completely.
A default runner on GitHub doesn't have that many cores, so you can't leverage parallel testing as good as in your typical local environments.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you a way of running your tests on GitHub, by splitting them up in small chunks that can run concurrently.
We use this technique at Oh Dear to cut down the running time of our vast testsuite from 16 minutes to only just 4. In this blog post all examples will come from the Oh Dear code base.
Stripe Is My DNS Provider Now: When Good APIs Meet Bad Ideas
– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy
Stripe metadata is great for config, entitlements, and... DNS? This experiment takes one good API feature and stretches it into the worst possible infrastructure layer.
Read more [www.conroyp.com]
Implementing Multitenancy in Laravel original
Here's the recording of the talk I did at this years Laracon India. In this talk, I show how we use our laravel-multitenancy package to make Mailcoach tenant aware. Enjoy!
A cookieless, cache-friendly image proxy in Laravel (inspired by Cloudflare)
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Transforming and serving images from Laravel in a cache-friendly way.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
Troy Hunt recently becaming the victim of phising. This proves yet again, that this can happen to anyone, not only non-technical people.
Read more [www.troyhunt.com]
Goodbye reCAPTCHA, hello Turnstile
We've been using this solution in our projects as well.
Read more [darkghosthunter.medium.com]
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
Michael Lynch, a software blogger, provides examples of his own successful posts and suggests strategies for promoting articles on platforms like Hacker News and Reddit.
Read more [refactoringenglish.com]
Using PHP as a (Terrible) Video Player
Don't use PHP for this. Still fun to do though
Read more [phpmemo.com]
Naming things is suddenly easier
Naming things is good skill to have for any programmer.
Read more [masteringlaravel.io]
Real-Time Updates with Client-Side Visits in Inertia 2.0 - No Server Overload!
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Pascal Baljet
Learn how you can update an Inertia.js page in real-time using client-side visits—without overloading your server, even with many users online. Laravel Echo, Laravel Reverb, and a new Inertia v2 feature make it simple and efficient.
Read more [www.youtube.com]
🚀 Laravel CSP v3 has been released, now supports presets
We just tagged & released a new major version of spatie/laravel-csp, a package to manage your Laravel app's content security policy. The development goal for version 3 was to reduce the boilerplate of configuring a policy for common services like Google Tag Manager, Fathom Analytics, Adobe Fonts…
Read more [spatie.be]
10 Efficient (and Fun) Ways to Seed Your Database
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
This article shares 10 efficient and fun ways to seed your database, from classic PHP arrays to importing CSVs and using AI to generate random, realistic data.
Read more [tighten.com]
Discovering PHP's yield Keyword After 10 Years
An article explaining PHP's yield keyword and how it can be use in place of return to easily build iterators.
Read more [ides.dev]
Bulletproofing Inertia: How I maximize Type Safety in Laravel Monoliths
Here's how you can use our Laravel Data package.
Read more [matthiasweiss.at]
Lessons From Eloqent Performance Patterns (Cheatsheet)
– stephenjude.me - submitted by STEPHEN JUDE
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API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value
Beware of "Other"!
Read more [devblogs.microsoft.com]
Build UI's that don't suck
Christmas came very early! Adam Wathan published a new free course.
Read more [tailwindcss.com]
PHP Ecosystem Deep Dive: The Code Quality Landscape
Some very cool numbers on the PHP ecosystem, gathered by Jean-François Lépin.
Read more [blog.lepine.pro]
