Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components
At Laracon US Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies
Read more [devdojo.com]
SQL Generated Columns and Views: How to Use Them in Your Laravel App
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
Learn how to use SQL generated columns and database views in Laravel to simplify queries, boost performance, and make your data easier to filter, sort, and reuse across your application.
Read more [tighten.com]
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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization
Some interesting thoughts about caching.
Read more [buttondown.com]
Improve user experience while keeping an eye on performance
A nice touch by Joel Clermont
Read more [masteringlaravel.io]
Your System Isn’t Slow – Your Bottleneck is not Optimized
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.
Read more [benmckay.com]
PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2
Tests performed by Tideways show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application.
Read more [tideways.com]
Five levels of handling images in Laravel
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.
Read more [spatie.be]
Optimize Bulk Insertions with Laravel's New fillAndInsert() Method
Laravel’s new fillAndInsert() method enables bulk insertions while applying model casting, timestamps, and UUID generation.
Read more [www.harrisrafto.eu]
A cookieless, cache-friendly image proxy in Laravel (inspired by Cloudflare)
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Transforming and serving images from Laravel in a cache-friendly way.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
Real-Time Updates with Client-Side Visits in Inertia 2.0 - No Server Overload!
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Pascal Baljet
Learn how you can update an Inertia.js page in real-time using client-side visits—without overloading your server, even with many users online. Laravel Echo, Laravel Reverb, and a new Inertia v2 feature make it simple and efficient.
Read more [www.youtube.com]
Lessons From Eloqent Performance Patterns (Cheatsheet)
– stephenjude.me - submitted by STEPHEN JUDE
Read more [stephenjude.me]
Deploying to Laravel Cloud with Queues – Easy Guide | Tutorial
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
This simple step-by-step guide teaches you how to deploy your Laravel project to Laravel Cloud! We'll cover everything from setup to handling queues for background tasks.
What you'll learn: ✅ Deploying a Laravel project to the cloud ✅ Setting up and managing queues ✅ Optimizing performance for scalability
Read more [youtu.be]
Importing 1.7 billion rows of CSV data from Stripe with PHP
– jonathanpurvis.co.uk - submitted by Jon Purvis
Inspired by a Tweet from Christoph Rumpel asking for best practises for importing huge CSV files, I did a write up about how I've imported (so far) 1.7 billion rows of CSV data from Stripe using their API.
Read more [jonathanpurvis.co.uk]
Unorthodox Monoliths in Laravel
– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
Tackling scalability challenges unorthodoxly in large monoliths with strategies like multi-application infrastructure, circuit fuse, and hybrid DB optimization.
Read more [medium.com]
Supercharging Rate Limiting with Cloudflare
By implementing rate limiting at the edge, “dead requests” can be reduced.
Read more [james.brooks.page]
The email:dns rule might slow down your Laravel app
– infinitypaul.medium.com - submitted by Paul Edward
Here's how a unsuspicious validation rule can wind up making your app slower.
Read more [infinitypaul.medium.com]
Pass by Reference vs Pass by Value in PHP: What’s the REAL Difference?
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this short video, we break down the key differences between Pass by Value and Pass by Reference in PHP. 🚀 Understanding these two concepts is essential for writing efficient and bug-free code. Learn how PHP handles variables when passed to functions, and see how small changes in your code can have a BIG impact on performance and behavior! 🔍
Read more [youtu.be]
Exploring the browser rendering process
Here's everything what a browser does to display the content of an URL.
Read more [abhisaha.com]
The polyglot stack — PHP & GoLang
A polyglot architecture combines PHP and GoLang to leverage their strengths. PHP enables rapid development, while Go optimizes resource utilization.
Read more [themsaid.com]
Optimizing Eloquent: Accessor Caching and Value Objects in Laravel
– www.harrisrafto.eu - submitted by Harris Raftopoulos
Laravel's accessor caching with shouldCache() boosts performance by preventing repetitive computations for expensive accessors. Additionally, you can work with complex data like addresses using value objects, and Laravel will auto-sync changes back to the model. This improves code efficiency and maintainability, especially for structured data.
Read more [www.harrisrafto.eu]
