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 performance
Speed up your Livewire tests
Michael Dyrynda found that switching from fill() to set() in Livewire tests reduced his test suite from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. The difference: fill triggers a Livewire round-trip per field, while set batches them into one.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
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Laravel Response Cache v8 is here: now offers flexible caching original
Our laravel-responsecache package speeds up your app by caching entire responses on the server. When the same page is requested again, the cached response is served without hitting your controller at all.
We just released v8, a new major version with a powerful new feature: flexible caching. It uses a stale-while-revalidate strategy, so that every visitor gets a fast response, even when the cache is being refreshed.
Let me walk you through it.
Introducing Ray 3.0 original
Ray 3.0 is here! Completely rebuilt for better performance (60% less memory), a fresh new look, message archiving, and MCP support so AI agents can interact with Ray directly.
Read more [myray.app]
Once again processing 11 million rows, now in seconds
Brent continues his optimization journey processing 11 million database events. Starting from 50k events per second, he implements combined inserts, skips unnecessary deserialization, and reaches 400k events per second. A great deep dive into PHP performance optimization.
Read more [stitcher.io]
SQL performance improvements: automatic detection & regression testing
The final part of Oh Dear's series on SQL performance. Mattias introduces phpunit-query-count-assertions, a package that catches N+1 queries, duplicate queries, and missing indexes in your test suite. Since implementing this at Oh Dear, they've eliminated 15% of their SELECT queries.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Livewire 4 Deep Dive: Components, Performance & New Directives
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
Livewire 4 introduces powerful new features that make building Laravel applications even better.
Read more [youtu.be]
Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith
Using Laravel’s new traits, WithCachedRoutes and WithCachedConfig, you can significantly reducing test run times.
Read more [cosmastech.com]
Introducing Flare’s next big feature: performance monitoring
Performance monitoring gives you a complete view of what's happening in your Laravel app. The dashboard tracks everything: HTTP routes, queued jobs, Artisan commands, and database queries.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Deferred Queue Driver in Laravel 12.35
– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen
Laravel 12.35 introduces the deferred queue driver, allowing queued jobs to run right after the HTTP response is sent.
Read more [nabilhassen.com]
SQL performance improvements: analysing & fixing the slow queries (part 2)
Mattias delves into optimizing SQL queries using indexes, focusing on MySQL 8.0. He explains how indexes work, how to analyze slow queries using MySQL’s EXPLAIN keyword, and the impact of different index configurations on query performance.
Read more [ohdear.app]
SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix
At Oh Dear, my colleague Mattias recently vastly increased the performance of our service. Here's how he did it.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Automatically fix production and performance problems in PHP and Laravel projects using AI
You can now use our MCP server to connect your AI agent to Flare. This way your AI has all context it needs to diagnose and fix production and performance problems of your PHP, JavaScript and Laravel projects.
In this blog post I’d like to tell you how you can use it, and how it works under the hood.
Read more [flareapp.io]
scout:queue-import: Faster Indexing in Laravel Scout
– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen
The new scout:queue-import command splits your model’s ID range into chunks and queues jobs for each, enabling faster indexing of large datasets.
Read more [nabilhassen.com]
Enabling WAL mode with SQLite in Laravel
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
SQLite's WAL mode makes using SQLite database much more production-ready.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components
At Laracon US Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies
Read more [devdojo.com]
SQL Generated Columns and Views: How to Use Them in Your Laravel App
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
Learn how to use SQL generated columns and database views in Laravel to simplify queries, boost performance, and make your data easier to filter, sort, and reuse across your application.
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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization
Some interesting thoughts about caching.
Read more [buttondown.com]
Improve user experience while keeping an eye on performance
A nice touch by Joel Clermont
Read more [masteringlaravel.io]
Your System Isn’t Slow – Your Bottleneck is not Optimized
A bottleneck isn’t inherently bad, we all have them. What matters is making sure your biggest bottleneck is always working at it’s most optimal conditions. That’s where your optimizations should be focused.
Read more [benmckay.com]
