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You might think that the way your store your data isn't really that important. Well it's more important than you think it is. A good database design just like good clean code is the key to performance, not only for the end user but also for you the developer. A poor database model just like poorly written code will slow you down and furthermore it will slow your database queries down which results in a slow application.

I made a script to easily take consistent measurements using Apache Benchmark. It includes an easy way to compare multiple measurements in a visual way.

Let's improve your users privacy with file encryption without using any 3rd party packages.

## Common SQL errors and how to solve them in Laravel A post about how to prevent and solve the most common SQL errors in Laravel.

In your infrastructure stack, Laravel and Hasura compliment each other extremely well. Hasura works really well because it magically converts GraphQL queries to SQL and is able to intelligently pick up your table relationships through the use of Foreign Keys. Hasura provides a SQL like GraphQL layer that Laravel developers will love to use!

Here, we will be looking at a hidden feature in Laravel which can be called Bootable Trait. Using this method we can easily use Traits to handle many things that we want to do when model is booted.

Handle SES webhooks with scale

GitHub offers a dependabot service that can let you know of any potential security issues with your dependencies and automatically create a Pull Request for you. This works great without any configuration if you have a repo that contains npm, composer or gem dependencies, but you may need additional configuration if your lock files aren’t in the root directory, or in separate directories in the case of a monorepo.

Due to its flexibility and ease of usage, Docker has become one of the most widely used, if not the most widely used, methods of distributing software. Learn the process of containerizing a Laravel application for both the development and the production environment.

How we migrated to GitHub Actions from Jenkins

This package adds CASE statement support to the Laravel Query Builder.

Laravel comes with sail.. But have you tried Lando? If not, you should!

Here, we will be looking at how to make a Laravel Collection clone. We will learn about two interfaces of PHP which will help us access an object as an array and loop through the object, and they are ArrayAccess and Iterable respectively. We will all be implementing some methods like map, filter, reduce and sum.

Simple Open Graph Image Generator With Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS for blog posts or social media sharing.

Laravel Notifications are an awesome tool that provides built-in support for sending notifications, in dozens of different channels, like Slack, Telegram, SMS, etc. In this tutorial, we will see how we can customise Laravel Notifications core to accommodate a multi-tenant setup in a single database.

blade-emerald is a Laravel package, it uses spatie/html-element which lets you write Emmet like Abbreviation to generate and wrap Laravel Blade Component with markup

In this video, we will be looking at one of the hidden Laravel features that you might not know about. It is Fluent class. The best way to access array related data.

Let's explore the option of firing events on model scopes to add some glue between our feature tests and our unit tests.

Filament blog builder that supports both Markdown and Richtext editors.

Here, we will be looking at how to create a search functionality using alpine js with up and down keyboard click support. You can use up and down keys to navigate the items after search and click enter to take you to the selected item page. Also clicking outside the searched item and escape key will close the dropdown list.