A lightweight solution for running PHP code concurrently original
Our team released a new package called spatie/fork. Using this package you can easily execute multiple pieces of code concurrently.
Posts tagged with performance
Function Inlining in PHP's Zend Engine
PHP has several over 30 functions at the moment that make use of special OPCodes or otherwise inlined to improve performance.
Read more [php.watch]
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Laravel Worldwide Meetup #8: Using Vite in Laravel & How to optimize your DB indexes original
Here's the recording of Laravel Wordwide Meetup #8. My guests for this edition were Kai Sassnowski talking on the importance of DB indexes, and Sebastian De Deyne on how to use Vite in Laravel.
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.
Read more [samuelstancl.me]
Fibers in PHP: A new opportunity for async PHP?
It looks like PHP will get fibers soon with PHP 8.1! That’s awesome! Or is it?
Read more [clue.engineering]
A JIT compiler for Tailwind CSS
Incredible work by Adam Wathan and his team.
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().
Read more [overreacted.io]
Cold Starts in AWS Lambda
Mikhail Shilkov explains what cold starts are and discusses some interesting benchmarks.
This article describes AWS Lambda—the dynamically scaled and billed-per-execution compute service. Instances of Lambdas are added and removed dynamically. When a new instance handles its first request, the response time increases, which is called a cold start.
Read more [mikhail.io]
Making our Laravel test suite in Oh Dear ready for parallel testing
Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run the Oh Dear testsuite about four times faster.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?
Last week, I started using a M1 powered MacBook Air as my primary computer. It feels much faster that my previous 16" MacBook Pro with Intel processor. Here's a good post on how Apple made their processors so fast.
Read more [debugger.medium.com]
Generating unique, random-looking voucher codes
– gdebrauwer.dev - submitted by Günther Debrauwer
Generating one voucher code is easy, but what if you need to generate thousands (or millions) and you need to be sure that each voucher code is unique? In this post, I will explain how you can solve this problem (in PHP).
Read more [gdebrauwer.dev]
Some notes on slow queues and Redis over TLS
My colleague Alex recently fixed a strange problem with Redis.
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
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]
Performance improvements in Xdebug 3
Developed by Derick Rethans, Xdebug 2 is the current stable version. Xdebug 3 had its first RC release out just a few days ago, and this post benchmarks the performance improvements in the new version.
Read more [php.watch]
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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PHP8's Weak maps explained
Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!
Read more [platform.sh]
How to run over 30k tests in under 5 minutes
Paratest is an extension on top of PhpUnit that adds support for parallel testing. For our unit tests, we could just add Paratest and it works without any configuration!
Read more [blog.mollie.com]
