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Posts tagged with performance
How to improve initial page load time by deferring rendering Livewire components
Livewire is an amazing piece of technology. It is extensively used in two products I work on: Oh Dear and Mailcoach Cloud.
In this post, I'd like to show you a simple technique where Livewire can help to improve your initial page load time significantly.
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A package to run Google Lighthouse using PHP
Google Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more.
Our newest package, spatie/lighthouse-php makes it easy to run Lighthouse using PHP. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
How to use the Query Builder correctly in Laravel
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this video we're having a look at the Query Builder, and how to use it correctly.
We're optimizing our performance by a. lot of request time, models loaded and memory used.
Read more [youtu.be]
Dynamically Generating Thousands of OG Images for a Viral Twitter Campaign
Fascinating read by Aaron Francis on how he used Netlify to generate dynamic OG images.
Read more [www.netlify.com]
Multi-Region Laravel With PlanetScale
– fly.io
Chris Fidao makes sure that an app feels fast no matter from where you visit it. Fascinating stuff!
Read more [fly.io]
Spawning workers based on queue workload
Earlier this week Jason McCreary deployed a feature which automatically spawns new worker servers for Shift based on the job queue workload. This reduced server costs by 97% and wait times by 80%.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/minute
– mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL
Read more [mateusguimaraes.com]
The Slotted Counter Pattern
A very nice technique to decrease concurrency and prevent deadlocks.
Read more [planetscale.com]
Increase performance by using Eloquent's `setRelation` method
While working on the upcoming Oh Dear redesign, I noticed that list that displays all sites of a team was very slow.
To display that list, a lot of queries were used. With a couple of minor adjustments, I could reduce the number of queries needed to just a single one, solving the performance problem.
In this small blog post, I'd like to share one of the techniques I used.
How do database indexes work?
This post will walk through how database indexes work, with a particular focus on MySQL, everyone’s (well, many people’s) favorite homegrown organic database.
Read more [planetscale.com]
Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins
I wonder if Laravel should use this technique by default. It seems to have a major positive impact on performance.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
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.
Read more [chipperci.com]
Making sure routes, config and events of your Laravel app are cached in production
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…
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.
Read more [tray2.se]
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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Speeding up array_merge()
Here's why you should be carefull with array_merge in loops.
Read more [www.exakat.io]