– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
If you're running a Laravel application in the 5's, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don't have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server's PHP version hit its end-of-life, this post is for you!
Read more [tighten.com]
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it.
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– mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL
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– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
A blog post about an experiment that converts PHP to Rust and is capable of generating native binaries.
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– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
You might be afraid of this change, but most likely this won't affect you.
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– aschmelyun.com - submitted by Andrew Schmelyun
If you've been working with PHP regularly, chances are you've run across an Interface, Trait, or Abstract Class. At first glance, they might appear to have a few similarities between them, and it can be hard to make out their differences and use cases.
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A very nice technique to decrease concurrency and prevent deadlocks.
Read more [planetscale.com]
While working on the upcoming Oh Dear redesign, I noticed that list that displays all sites of a team was very slow.
To display that list, a lot of queries were used. With a couple of minor adjustments, I could reduce the number of queries needed to just a single one, solving the performance problem.
In this small blog post, I'd like to share one of the techniques I used.
Povilas Korop of Laravel Daily made a cool video on the internals of our spatie/laravel-login-link package.
The best dependency manager just got a little bit better.
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Here's an update on what the PHP core contributors have been doing these past few weeks.
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This post will walk through how database indexes work, with a particular focus on MySQL, everyone’s (well, many people’s) favorite homegrown organic database.
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– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
You'll learn the difference between "tactical" and "strategic" programming, and why choosing the right approach is important in the long run.
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A nice lighting talk given by my colleague Seb at the first edition of Full Stack Europe.
I wonder if Laravel should use this technique by default. It seems to have a major positive impact on performance.
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Thomas Votruba explains how you can go about this.
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Pretty cool what you can do with CSS nowadays
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– sive.rs
A nice writing tip by Derek Sivers
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