performance

All my posts about performance.

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Making our Laravel test suite in Oh Dear ready for parallel testing

Feb 1st 2021 – ohdear.app

Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run the Oh Dear testsuite about four times faster.

Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?

Jan 24th 2021 – debugger.medium.com

Last week, I started using a M1 powered MacBook Air as my primary computer. It feels much faster that my previous 16" MacBook Pro with Intel processor. Here's a good post on how Apple made their processors so fast.

Generating unique, random-looking voucher codes

Jan 24th 2021 – gdebrauwer.dev - submitted by Günther Debrauwer

Generating one voucher code is easy, but what if you need to generate thousands (or millions) and you need to be sure that each voucher code is unique? In this post, I will explain how you can solve this problem (in PHP).

Some notes on slow queues and Redis over TLS

Jan 21st 2021 – alexvanderbist.com

My colleague Alex recently fixed a strange problem with Redis.

Finding Slow Tests in PHPUnit 9

Jan 21st 2021 – www.aaronsaray.com

When your unit test suite gets larger, it can take quite a long time. One of the many ways to speed this up is to hunt down and fix slow tests. Let’s use PHPUnit’s test listeners to do just that.

Performance improvements in Xdebug 3

Nov 18th 2020 – php.watch

Developed by Derick Rethans, Xdebug 2 is the current stable version. Xdebug 3 had its first RC release out just a few days ago, and this post benchmarks the performance improvements in the new version.

Laravel Media Library: Load Only 1st Picture Efficiently

Nov 16th 2020 – naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon

I needed to display only the first picture from my Product's model media collection and found my app running five queries and hydrating 16 models with only four products to display 😱 . Here's how I ended with only two queries and eight models.

PHP8's Weak maps explained

Oct 19th 2020 – platform.sh

Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!

How to run over 30k tests in under 5 minutes

Oct 9th 2020 – blog.mollie.com

Paratest is an extension on top of PhpUnit that adds support for parallel testing. For our unit tests, we could just add Paratest and it works without any configuration!

Static webhosting benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub & Cloudflare

Oct 7th 2020 – www.savjee.be

Xavier Decuyper researched which provider offers the fastest static webhosting.

How to delete 900 million records in MySQL without shooting yourself in the foot

Sep 22nd 2020 – flareapp.io

When reviewing the contents of the database of Flare, we encountered a table with 1 billion records. Technically that isn't a problem. Flare runs on Vapor and uses an Aurora database, so it can handle that scale. But of course, there's a cost for storing that many records.

We dove in and concluded that we could safely delete about 900 million records. They all were created before a specific date.

Don't trust default timeouts

Sep 17th 2020 – robertovitillo.com

Modern applications don’t crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn’t.

Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA

Aug 11th 2020 – hakibenita.com

Databases are the backbone of most modern systems, so taking some time to understand how they work is a good investment for any developer.

How to clean up huge tables in Laravel with ease original

Jul 27th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Using our laravel-model-cleanup package, you can easily remove old unneeded records from your database. We recently released a new major version that adds support for safely cleaning out huge tables.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce this new release of the package to you.

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