Posts tagged with performance
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
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.
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
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.
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– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef – Edit
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.
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– www.netlify.com – Edit
Fascinating read by Aaron Francis on how he used Netlify to generate dynamic OG images.
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Chris Fidao makes sure that an app feels fast no matter from where you visit it. Fascinating stuff!
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– jasonmccreary.me – Edit
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%.
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– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis – Edit
Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it.
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– mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães – Edit
Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL
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– planetscale.com – Edit
A very nice technique to decrease concurrency and prevent deadlocks.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
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.
– planetscale.com – Edit
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.
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– aaronfrancis.com – Edit
I wonder if Laravel should use this technique by default. It seems to have a major positive impact on performance.
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– chipperci.com – Edit
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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by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
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? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL
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– tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström – Edit
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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– barryvanveen.nl - submitted by Barry van Veen – Edit
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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– www.exakat.io – Edit
Here's why you should be carefull with array_merge in loops.
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– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis – Edit
A slight modification to traditional offset/limit pagination that can drastically boost performance.
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