Read-only web apps
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.
Read more [adactio.com]
Improving Client Side Pagination with Livewire
– fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan
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!
Read more [fly.io]
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Generating Large ZIP Exports From Files in S3
– chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White
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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Optimising Flare
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.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Blazingly Fast Markdown Parsing in PHP using FFI and Rust
– 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.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Improve load time performance by lazily loading background images
– 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?
Read more [www.conroyp.com]
Kill Switches: Interrupting Long-Running Processes
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
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.
Read more [tighten.com]
Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years
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.
How to improve initial page load time by deferring rendering Livewire components original
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.
A package to run Google Lighthouse using PHP original
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.
How to use the Query Builder correctly in Laravel
– 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.
Read more [youtu.be]
Dynamically Generating Thousands of OG Images for a Viral Twitter Campaign
Fascinating read by Aaron Francis on how he used Netlify to generate dynamic OG images.
Read more [www.netlify.com]
Multi-Region Laravel With PlanetScale
– fly.io
Chris Fidao makes sure that an app feels fast no matter from where you visit it. Fascinating stuff!
Read more [fly.io]
Spawning workers based on queue workload
Earlier this week Jason McCreary deployed a feature which automatically spawns new worker servers for Shift based on the job queue workload. This reduced server costs by 97% and wait times by 80%.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it.
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/minute
– mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL
Read more [mateusguimaraes.com]
The Slotted Counter Pattern
A very nice technique to decrease concurrency and prevent deadlocks.
Read more [planetscale.com]
Increase performance by using Eloquent's `setRelation` method original
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.
How do database indexes work?
This post will walk through how database indexes work, with a particular focus on MySQL, everyone’s (well, many people’s) favorite homegrown organic database.
Read more [planetscale.com]
