Optimize Bulk Insertions with Laravel's New fillAndInsert() Method
Laravel’s new fillAndInsert() method enables bulk insertions while applying model casting, timestamps, and UUID generation.
Read more [www.harrisrafto.eu]
Running PHP tests in parallel on GitHub actions original
A couple of years ago, Laravel introduced a great feature which allows to run PHPUnit / Pest tests in parallel. This results in a big boost in performance.
By default, it determines the concurrency level by taking a look at the number of CPU cores your machine has. So, if you're using a modern Mac that has 10 CPU cores, it will run 10 tests at the same time, greatly cutting down on the time your testsuite needs to run completely.
A default runner on GitHub doesn't have that many cores, so you can't leverage parallel testing as good as in your typical local environments.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you a way of running your tests on GitHub, by splitting them up in small chunks that can run concurrently.
We use this technique at Oh Dear to cut down the running time of our vast testsuite from 16 minutes to only just 4. In this blog post all examples will come from the Oh Dear code base.
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– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
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– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
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– stefanzweifel.dev - submitted by Stefan Zweifel
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– jonathanpurvis.co.uk - submitted by Jon Purvis
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Read more [jonathanpurvis.co.uk]
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– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
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– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
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– infinitypaul.medium.com - submitted by Paul Edward
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– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
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