Brent continues his optimization journey processing 11 million database events. Starting from 50k events per second, he implements combined inserts, skips unnecessary deserialization, and reaches 400k events per second. A great deep dive into PHP performance optimization.
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Mattias delves into optimizing SQL queries using indexes, focusing on MySQL 8.0. He explains how indexes work, how to analyze slow queries using MySQL’s EXPLAIN keyword, and the impact of different index configurations on query performance.
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At Oh Dear, my colleague Mattias recently vastly increased the performance of our service. Here's how he did it.
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A bottleneck isn’t inherently bad, we all have them. What matters is making sure your biggest bottleneck is always working at it’s most optimal conditions. That’s where your optimizations should be focused.
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We'll cover resizing, image optimization, and UI enhancements and show how Spatie's packages and products can make the whole process easier, more efficient, and even a bit fun.
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Laravel’s new fillAndInsert() method enables bulk insertions while applying model casting, timestamps, and UUID generation.
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– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
Learn how to install and configure Typesense in a Laravel app, then optimize search by sorting records, using filters, adjusting typo tolerance, accessing raw responses, and leveraging facets for better filtering.
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By implementing rate limiting at the edge, “dead requests” can be reduced.
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– phare.io - submitted by Nicolas Beauvais
Learn how to use downsampling to show time series data while providing the right balance between user experience, and performance.
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– hakanaktas.com.tr - submitted by Hakan
A pragmatic approach to avoiding early optimizations
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At Oh Dear we've updated the OS on our servers and discovered a pretty nice side effect.
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– 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.
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Personally, I've never done this, as it feels like a micro-optimizations, but still good to know.
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– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
In this post, Ryan demonstrates how to use FFI and a lower-level language such as Rust to improve the performance of a critical path.
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– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy
Background images are key to a lot of compelling site designs, but can cause performance issues as they can't take advantage of native lazy loading. How can we get the benefit of using background images, but in a performant way?
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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.
– 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.
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– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it.
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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.
I wonder if Laravel should use this technique by default. It seems to have a major positive impact on performance.
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