A Lot Less Node with Airdrop
Airdrop determines when you can skip building static assets, saving a LOT of time and server resources in continuous integration and deployment.
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Posts tagged with optimization
What’s the best lossless image format?
– siipo.la - submitted by Peter
What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL
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The value of a good database design
– tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström
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.
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Measuring performance with Apache Benchmark
– barryvanveen.nl - submitted by Barry van Veen
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.
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Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
A slight modification to traditional offset/limit pagination that can drastically boost performance.
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Increase Database Performance By Using Multiple Columns
By thinking outside of the box, you can often get much faster database performance by splitting values across multiple database columns.
Read more [downing.tech]
Efficient Distance Querying in MySQL
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
A clever use of MySQL indexes and generated columns to make blazing fast geolocation searches.
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Introducing lazy loading prevention into an existing application
– timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac
Introduce lazy loading to an existing application without interrupting flow or overwhelming your logs
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Strategies for decreasing the number of queries in a Laravel app
Oh Dear is all-in-one solution to monitor your site that my buddy Mattias Geniar and I have created. It can monitoring uptime, certificates, broken links, scheduled jobs, and much more.
Under the hood, Oh Dear is a large Laravel application that performs many queries all of the time. To power future features, we've recently changed our database structure and refactored some pieces in our code base. We increased performance by decreasing the number of queries.
In this blog post, we'd like to to share some techniques that might be helpfull to increase the performance of your Laravel app too.
Optimizing Vue for Speed, Performance, and Core Web Vitals
Matt Stauffer on how to minimize Vue's impact on the Core Web Vitals?
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Dealing with the n+1 problem in Laravel
Mohamed shows how you can deal with N+1 problems using the $with model attribute and the newly added Model::preventLazyLoading() method.
Performance problems caused by array_unique
Benjamin Eberlei tells the story of a performance mistake that is quickly made even by experienced developers.
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How to optimize ORDER BY RANDOM()
Tobias explains how you can make this operation very fast even if your table has several million records.
Read more [tpetry.me]
Improving Google Maps Performance on Large Datasets
– tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Here are some hot tips for mapping large datasets on Google Maps, without sacrificing performance.
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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.
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Rationing Your Laravel Queue Workers Memory And CPU Consumption
If you're running your queue workers on a server with limited resources, or a server that's also used to serve HTTP requests and do other tasks, it's important to ration the resource used by those workers.
Read more [divinglaravel.com]
Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021
In this post 8 image loading optimization techniques are outlined to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display.
Read more [www.industrialempathy.com]
Before You memo()
In this post, Dan Abramov shares two different techniques to optimize components without having to reach for memo().
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Finding Slow Tests in PHPUnit 9
When your unit test suite gets larger, it can take quite a long time. One of the many ways to speed this up is to hunt down and fix slow tests. Let’s use PHPUnit’s test listeners to do just that.
Read more [www.aaronsaray.com]
Laravel Media Library: Load Only 1st Picture Efficiently
– naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon
I needed to display only the first picture from my Product's model media collection and found my app running five queries and hydrating 16 models with only four products to display 😱 . Here's how I ended with only two queries and eight models.
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