Optimizing PHP for performance
– mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Let's dive on how to enable OPCache and fine-tune php-fpm to handle the most requests as possible on a given machine.
Read more [mateusguimaraes.com]
Posts tagged with performance
Disabling Composer's default timeout inside of scripts
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Composer's 30 second execution timeout can get in the way of long-running processes executed from a script. This is how you disable it.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
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How to Refactor a Method With Optional Params
– lukapeharda.com - submitted by Luka Peharda
Read how I fixed performance issues when refactoring and optimising legacy code with method signature inconsistency, done unintentionally by developer
Read more [lukapeharda.com]
A deeper dive into optimal PHP-FPM settings
– geoligard.com - submitted by Goran Popović
PHP-FPM config files usually aren't something that you give too much attention to until something goes wrong. Here's what you can do when that time comes.
Read more [geoligard.com]
Reducing PHP's CPU usage by nearly 40% by upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04
At Oh Dear we've updated the OS on our servers and discovered a pretty nice side effect.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Generating status badges using PHP original
FrankenPHP and Laravel Octane with Docker
– chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White
I'll show you how to run Laravel Octane with the new FrankenPHP support inside a Docker container to serve your Laravel application.
Read more [chriswhite.is]
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.
Read more [tighten.com]
Stressless: Stress Testing for PHP
– pestphp.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
The PEST team just announced the release of a brand new plugin for Pest PHP: Stressless.
Read more [pestphp.com]
Detecting N+1 issues in your Laravel project with Ray
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Learn how to detect and resolve N+1 issues in your Laravel project by using Ray.
Read more [myray.app]
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.
Read more [rias.be]
Event Delegation: A Technique to Improve JavaScript Performance
– blog.shahryartayeb.com - submitted by Shahryar
In this blog post, you will learn what event delegation is, how it can help you optimize your JavaScript code by reducing the number of event listeners, and how to implement it with a practical example.
Read more [blog.shahryartayeb.com]
Solving PHP Scaling Issues
– www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman
We have an export feature that can build an Excel file over the course of many background jobs. Worked beautifully for years. Man, those were the days.
Read more [www.eloquentarchitecture.com]
Nginx Unit with Laravel and PHP
– fideloper.com - submitted by Chris Fidao
How to use Nginx Unit to server your Laravel application. It turns out, we can get rid of PHP-FPM, and run our apps more efficiently. We see how, and go over the pros and cons.
Read more [fideloper.com]
Fast database queries are not always better
Tim McDonald explains Laravel's cool whenQueryingForLongerThan method.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Why does a backslash prefix improve PHP function call performance
Personally, I've never done this, as it feels like a micro-optimizations, but still good to know.
Read more [www.deviaene.eu]
Read-only web apps
If you’re about to build a web app and you’re pretty sure it requires JavaScript, why not pause and consider whether you can provide a read-only version.
Read more [adactio.com]
Improving Client Side Pagination with Livewire
– fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan
In this article we remove the need to get entire datasets in order to make Client Side Pagination work. Instead, we get the dataset in lighter, less heavier parts!
Read more [fly.io]
Generating Large ZIP Exports From Files in S3
– chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White
I'll show you how to generate a ZIP export of an arbitrary numbers of files in an S3 bucket in a fast and memory efficient way, so you don't go OOM.
Read more [chriswhite.is]
Optimising Flare
The laravel-data package is fantastic to work with, but it also adds a lot of complexity when outputting data. In this blog post, we will look at how we've improved the performance of the package and, thus, the complete Flare application.
Read more [flareapp.io]
