Dynamically Generating Thousands of OG Images for a Viral Twitter Campaign
– www.netlify.com – Edit
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
Chris Fidao makes sure that an app feels fast no matter from where you visit it. Fascinating stuff!
Read more [fly.io]
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Spawning workers based on queue workload
– jasonmccreary.me – Edit
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%.
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Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis – Edit
Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it.
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Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/minute
– mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães – Edit
Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL
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The Slotted Counter Pattern
– planetscale.com – Edit
A very nice technique to decrease concurrency and prevent deadlocks.
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Increase performance by using Eloquent's `setRelation` method original
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
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?
– planetscale.com – Edit
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.
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Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins
– aaronfrancis.com – Edit
I wonder if Laravel should use this technique by default. It seems to have a major positive impact on performance.
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A Lot Less Node with Airdrop
– chipperci.com – Edit
Airdrop determines when you can skip building static assets, saving a LOT of time and server resources in continuous integration and deployment.
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Making sure routes, config and events of your Laravel app are cached in production original
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
A typical Laravel application will likely have many routes, config files and possibly some events. In your development environment, these routes and config files will be loaded and registered in each request. The performance penalty for this is not too big. In a production environment, you want to…
What’s the best lossless image format?
What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL
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The value of a good database design
– tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström – Edit
You might think that the way your store your data isn't really that important. Well it's more important than you think it is. A good database design just like good clean code is the key to performance, not only for the end user but also for you the developer. A poor database model just like poorly written code will slow you down and furthermore it will slow your database queries down which results in a slow application.
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Measuring performance with Apache Benchmark
– barryvanveen.nl - submitted by Barry van Veen – Edit
I made a script to easily take consistent measurements using Apache Benchmark. It includes an easy way to compare multiple measurements in a visual way.
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Speeding up array_merge()
– www.exakat.io – Edit
Here's why you should be carefull with array_merge in loops.
Read more [www.exakat.io]
Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis – Edit
A slight modification to traditional offset/limit pagination that can drastically boost performance.
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Streaming HTTP response in PHP - turn long-running process into realtime UI
– itsrav.dev - submitted by Sourav R – Edit
Output Buffering is not so popular these days, but it is powerful. with simple vintage OB technique I made a real-time payment process UI
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Filtering Carbon Period For Flexibility And Performance
– tomerbe.co.uk – Edit
Here's a nice way to go about filtering Carbon instances
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Swoole vs Roadrunner for Laravel Octane
– chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White – Edit
Choosing between Swoole and Roadrunner in a Laravel Octane deployment can be overwhelming - in this post I compare the advantages and disadvantages of both.
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