performance

All my posts about performance.

php laravel optimization database best practices

Hands-on with Portals: seamless navigation on the Web

Jul 1st 2020 – 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.

Enable early access Metal support for JetBrains IDEs

Jun 25th 2020 – alexvanderbist.com

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

Ordering database queries by relationship columns in Laravel

Jun 24th 2020 – reinink.ca

Jonathan Reinink published another excellent blogpost on db performance.

Introducing new performance monitoring for your websites

Jun 9th 2020 – ohdear.app

We're excited to announce all Oh Dear users now have access to detailed performance metrics for all of their websites!

Application Instrumentation with Aspect Oriented Programming in PHP

Apr 28th 2020 – medium.com - submitted by Vasily

A nice introduction to AOP in PHP, with a focus on performance, with a lot of benchmarks.

Native image lazy-loading for the web!

Mar 17th 2020 – addyosmani.com

Did you know modern browsers can lazy load images out of the box? Laravel-medialibrary now supports this too.

Understanding PHP 8's JIT

Mar 6th 2020 – thephp.website

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.

Lazy Collections in Laravel Excel

Mar 3rd 2020 – 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.

laravel-event-sourcing v3 has been released original

Feb 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

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.

Calculate the Carbon output of your website

Feb 10th 2020 – www.websitecarbon.com - submitted by Brent

How is your website impacting the planet?

PHP: Past and Future

Feb 4th 2020 – blog.krakjoe.ninja

Joe Watkins compares the execution speed of PHP 4 against PHP 8. It's amazing how far PHP has come.

The end of cold starts at AWS Lambda

Jan 27th 2020 – lumigo.io

Yan Cui explains a feature called "Provisioned concurrency" that Amazon recently launched

Memoizing stuff in PHP 7.4

Jan 23rd 2020 – twitter.com

Did you know that the null coalescing assignment operator in #PHP 7.4 can be used to make memoizing stuff a little more clean? pic.twitter.com/SWWJEXQBLx
— Brent (@brendt_gd) January 16, 2020

PHP Performance Trivia

Dec 13th 2019

Nikita Popov discusses some low level performance optimizations in PHP.

Streaming a large export as a CSV file to the browser original

Nov 29th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

A while ago, I created an easy to use framework agnostic PHP package to read and write CSV and Excel files called spatie/simple-excel. Behind the scenes, generators are used to ensure low memory usage, even when working with large files. Today I added a method that allows you to stream CSV files to the browser. In this small blog post, I'd like to demonstrate how you can use it.

Disable HTTP sessions in Laravel to speed up your API

Nov 19th 2019 – ma.ttias.be

My buddy Mattias recently improved the performance of the Oh Dear uptime checker servers by disabling the HTTP sessions.

If you run a Laravel application purely as a headless API, you can benefit from disabling the HTTP sessions. We use this setup for our Oh Dear monitoring service, where the remote servers that check for uptime are all headless Laravel setups.

Creating custom relations in Laravel

Nov 12th 2019 – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent solved a performance by creating a custom relation

One last solution that came to mind was to load all people, all contracts, and map them together manually. In the end that's exactly what I ended up doing, though I did it in the cleanest possible way: using custom relations.

Add query-constraints when eager loading relationships

Nov 12th 2019 – twitter.com

? Did you know you can add query-constraints when eager loading relationships in Laravel?
Perfect opportunity to improve query performance when your relationships return thousands of models.

↳ Full example: https://t.co/RsezzpkWoC pic.twitter.com/nwjC7U8Oqa
— Stefan Zweifel (@_stefanzweifel) November 12, 2019

What Is Garbage Collection in PHP And How Do You Make The Most Of It?

Nov 7th 2019 – tideways.com

On the Tideways blog, Benjamin Eberlei explains PHPs garbage collection internals.

It's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications.

Persistent Layout Patterns in Next.js

Oct 22nd 2019 – adamwathan.me

Adam Wathan explain how can avoid re-rendering the entire UI everytime you click a link in Next.js

Next.js is such a wonderfully productive development experience and produces such incredibly fast websites that I just refused to believe it had to be this way. So I spent a few weeks researching, asking questions, and experimenting, and came up with these four patterns for persistent layouts in Next.js applications.