Generating OG images at the edge on Cloudflare
Matt Rothenberg walks through how to generate dynamic Open Graph images on Cloudflare Workers. A practical guide covering the full setup from rendering to caching.
Read more [mattrothenberg.com]
Posts tagged with caching
How to use Flexible Caching in Laravel | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
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In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, I'll have a look at how to use flexible caching in Laravel. A great way to avoid unhappy users who'll hit invalid cache.
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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization
Some interesting thoughts about caching.
Read more [buttondown.com]
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.
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Build and Cache Frontend Assets once using GitHub Actions
Learn how to use GitHub Actions to speed up your Deployer deployments by cleverly caching your frontend build assets
Read more [stefanzweifel.dev]
Working with DynamoDB in Laravel
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Learn about how to use DynamoDB in Laravel for caching and storing Laravel models.
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Caching Strategies In Laravel
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
When it comes to caching, we have to balance performance gains with increased cost of complexity and infrastructure. In our latest post, we talk through a few different caching strategies and approaches so you know the best caching tool for any situation.
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Adding "Stale While Revalidate" functionality to Laravel's Cache
– rias.be
Stale While Revalidate (SWR) is a strategy to first return the data from the cache, then send the fetch request, and finally come up with the up-to-date data.
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Making sure routes, config and events of your Laravel app are cached in production original
A typical Laravel application will likely have many routes, config files and possibly some events. In your development environment, these routes and config files will be loaded and registered in each request. The performance penalty for this is not too big. In a production environment, you want to…
Maximizing response caching in Laravel
Response caching is like a progressive enhancement. It will make your app faster in some ways, and some cases, but your app must work perfectly well without it.
Read more [samuelstancl.me]
spatie/once v3 has been released, now uses a PHP 8 WeakMap original
I've just released a new major version of the spatie/once package. This version uses the WeakMap class which is introduced in PHP 8. In this short post I'd like explain why this change was made.
PHP8's Weak maps explained
Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!
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Caching the entire response of a Laravel app original
When a request comes in your app will return a response. To create that response, your application has to do some work. Most likely queries will execute. This all takes some time. Wouldn't it be nice if the same request comes in, we can return the response the application has constructed previously?
Using Oh Dear! to keep your Varnish cache warm
On the Oh Dear! blog, Mattias Geniar explains how you can use our service to keep your Varnish cache warm.
Slow websites are annoying, right? We sure think so. One common solution is to introduce a caching proxy like Varnish to help cache pages and reduce your server load. The good news is, if you have Oh Dear!, you can let those 2 work together.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Misconceptions about HTTP caching
Misconceptions about HTTP caching for APIs abound. Here is a little thread that covers a bunch of them.
— Crashy McCiderface (@philsturgeon) October 10, 2018
1. "Caching API responses is WRONG, using caching for performance is a crutch and the endpoint should just be fast.
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Make your app fly with PHP OPcache
Recently this button to optimize PHP's OPcache was added to Laravel Forge.
If you were wondering what PHP OPcache is all about and what pressing this button does with your application, read this article Olav van Schie wrote on the subject a while ago.
Every time you execute a PHP script, the script needs to be compiled to byte code. OPcache leverages a cache for this bytecode, so the next time the same script is requested, it doesn’t have to recompile it. This can save some precious execution time, and thus make your app faster (and maybe save some server costs).
https://medium.com/appstract/make-your-laravel-app-fly-with-php-opcache-9948db2a5f93
Environment variables, config caching, and Laravel
In a short blogpost Michael Dyrynda gives some good advice on why you should cache your routes and config values.
As part of the recommended production deploy process it is important to run the caching commands that Laravel affords us via Artisan. This means running config:cache and route:cache, which will compile the config and route files down into a single file each.In doing so, Laravel aims to speed up parsing of these files by only needing to read a single, rather than multiple files.
https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/environment-variables-config-caching-and-laravel
Getting started with Varnish Cache
If you want to learn Varnish Thijs Feryn wrote a book for you. It's free to download until 7th March 2017.
Getting Strated with Varnish Cache is a technical book about the Varnish caching technology. Varnish is a so-called reverse caching proxy that acts as an intermediary between the browser and the webserver. Varnish stores HTTP responses and serves them to the browser, without accessing the backend for every request. This causes a massive speed increase.
Using Varnish on a Laravel Forge provisioned server original
For a project we're working on at Spatie we're expecting high traffic. That's why we spent some time researching how to improve the request speed of a Laravel application and the amount of requests a single server can handle. There are many strategies and services you can use to speed up a site. In…
