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.
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– 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.
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Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!
Read more [platform.sh]
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!
Read more [blog.mollie.com]
Xavier Decuyper researched which provider offers the fastest static webhosting.
Read more [www.savjee.be]
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.
Read more [flareapp.io]
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.
Read more [robertovitillo.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.
Read more [hakibenita.com]
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.
Michael Dyrynda explains why and how you should install pcov
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My collegue Brent did some benchmarks of the upcoming JIT coming to PHP 8
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– web.dev
Wouldn't it be nice if users wouldn't see a blank screen when navigation to another URL? Portals allow you to preload the next page and transition to it with a nice animation.
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Project Lanai is a joint effort between JetBrains and Oracle that looks to solve performance problems by utilizing Apple's Metal API for rendering the application instead of OpenGL. My colleague Alex tried using it in PhpStorm
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
Jonathan Reinink published another excellent blogpost on db performance.
Read more [reinink.ca]
We're excited to announce all Oh Dear users now have access to detailed performance metrics for all of their websites!
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– medium.com - submitted by Vasily
A nice introduction to AOP in PHP, with a focus on performance, with a lot of benchmarks.
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Did you know modern browsers can lazy load images out of the box? Laravel-medialibrary now supports this too.
Read more [addyosmani.com]
PHP 8’s Just In Time compiler is implemented as part of the Opcache extension and aims to compile some Opcodes into CPU instructions in runtime. Nickolas Da Silva explains how it works.
Read more [thephp.website]
– stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel
Stefan Zweifel recently had to refactor an Excel export which deals with thousands of rows. Lazy Collections helped solve all performance problems.
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Our spatie/laravel-event-sourcing package is probably the best starting point for event sourcing in Laravel. It has excellent docs, that explain event sourcing from scratch, support for aggregates, projectors, and much more! It's all beautifully integrated in Laravel.
Recently we released v3 of the package. In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through the changes.
