– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta – Edit
When it comes to caching, we have to balance performance gains with increased cost of complexity and infrastructure. In our latest post, we talk through a few different caching strategies and approaches so you know the best caching tool for any situation.
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– pestphp.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro – Edit
The PEST team just announced the release of a brand new plugin for Pest PHP: Stressless.
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Learn how to detect and resolve N+1 issues in your Laravel project by using Ray.
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Stale While Revalidate (SWR) is a strategy to first return the data from the cache, then send the fetch request, and finally come up with the up-to-date data.
Read more [rias.be]
– blog.shahryartayeb.com - submitted by Shahryar – Edit
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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– www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman – Edit
We have an export feature that can build an Excel file over the course of many background jobs. Worked beautifully for years. Man, those were the days.
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– fideloper.com - submitted by Chris Fidao – Edit
How to use Nginx Unit to server your Laravel application. It turns out, we can get rid of PHP-FPM, and run our apps more efficiently. We see how, and go over the pros and cons.
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– timacdonald.me – Edit
Tim McDonald explains Laravel's cool whenQueryingForLongerThan method.
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– www.deviaene.eu – Edit
Personally, I've never done this, as it feels like a micro-optimizations, but still good to know.
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– adactio.com – Edit
If you’re about to build a web app and you’re pretty sure it requires JavaScript, why not pause and consider whether you can provide a read-only version.
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– fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan – Edit
In this article we remove the need to get entire datasets in order to make Client Side Pagination work. Instead, we get the dataset in lighter, less heavier parts!
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– chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White – Edit
I'll show you how to generate a ZIP export of an arbitrary numbers of files in an S3 bucket in a fast and memory efficient way, so you don't go OOM.
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– flareapp.io – Edit
The laravel-data package is fantastic to work with, but it also adds a lot of complexity when outputting data. In this blog post, we will look at how we've improved the performance of the package and, thus, the complete Flare application.
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– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler – Edit
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 – Edit
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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– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta – Edit
Have you ever heard of a “kill switch”—a device meant to disable machinery if its owner is incapacitated? Turns out you can also build kill switches into your code. Tony shares four kill switch examples for Laravel applications.
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Learn what makes the programming language Rust a unique technology, such as the memory safety guarantees that enable more people to write performant systems-level code.
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.
– 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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