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Here are some hot tips for mapping large datasets on Google Maps, without sacrificing performance.

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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.

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It looks like PHP will get fibers soon with PHP 8.1! That’s awesome! Or is it?

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Incredible work by Adam Wathan and his team.

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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.

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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.

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In this post, Dan Abramov shares two different techniques to optimize components without having to reach for memo().

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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.

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Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run the Oh Dear testsuite about four times faster.

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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.

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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).

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My colleague Alex recently fixed a strange problem with Redis.

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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.

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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.

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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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Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!

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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!

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Xavier Decuyper researched which provider offers the fastest static webhosting.

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When reviewing the contents of the database of Flare, we encountered a table with 1 billion records. Technically that isn't a problem. Flare runs on Vapor and uses an Aurora database, so it can handle that scale. But of course, there's a cost for storing that many records.

We dove in and concluded that we could safely delete about 900 million records. They all were created before a specific date.

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Modern applications don’t crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn’t.

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