Choose Postgres queue technology
A nice intro into using Postgres as your queuing solution, and some nice thoughts abou the importance of scale.
Read more [adriano.fyi]
Solving PHP Scaling Issues
– www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman
We have an export feature that can build an Excel file over the course of many background jobs. Worked beautifully for years. Man, those were the days.
Read more [www.eloquentarchitecture.com]
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20 practical productivity tips that you can start doing today as a developer (no Pomodoro)
– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
A set of practical and straightforward tips for enhancing productivity as a developer.
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Creating my new album "Kind" original
This blog post will be a little different. I'm not going to write about programming as usual. Over the past few months, I have worked on my new album titled "Kind". You can listen to it on these platforms:
In this blog post, I'll share how this album was made from conception to release.
Aaron Francis' course on creating screencasts is now available
Great work! I wish this course existing when I started out creating screencasts.
Read more [screencasting.com]
Video: the keynotes of Full Stack Europe 2022 original
Last year at Full Stack Europe we had two great keynotes by two amazing speakers: Jeremy Keith and Kevlin Henney. We're very happy that we can share the recordings with you.
Next month, we'll have a new edition of Full Stack Europe, you can purchase your tickets here. We have an excellent line-up featuring Justin Jackson, Una Kravets, and people that work at companies like Meta, Google, Netlify. If you're familiar with the Laravel community, you'll also probably recognize Kai Sassnowski, Tobias Petry, and a few others! Hope to see you at the conference!
Unorthodox Eloquent
– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Muhammed's been working with Eloquent for over half a decade now, and it's time to share his bag of tricks. Buckle up, it'll be a good ride!
Read more [muhammedsari.me]
Laravel 11: Release Date and New Features
– alexandergaal.at - submitted by Alexander Gaal
It's the last quarter of the year and I'm getting more and more excited about the upcoming Laravel 11 release. Let's wrap it up!
Read more [alexandergaal.at]
Why error tracking is crucial for your application
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Alex and Christoph explain why error tracking is crucial for your application.
Read more [flareapp.io]
The State of Laravel 2023 results
Here are the result on the survey on the Laravel ecosystem run by Tobias Petry.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]
Nginx Unit with Laravel and PHP
– fideloper.com - submitted by Chris Fidao
How to use Nginx Unit to server your Laravel application. It turns out, we can get rid of PHP-FPM, and run our apps more efficiently. We see how, and go over the pros and cons.
Read more [fideloper.com]
Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript
DHH on why he's ditching TypeScript
Read more [world.hey.com]
Workbench App for Packages
– world.hey.com - submitted by Tony Messias
A new package by Mior called Workbench lets us set up an example Laravel app inside our packages. This Workbench app can serve as documentation of how the package integrates with a Larave app. Plus, we can use the Workbench models, controllers, routes, etc., in our package's tests and quickly run the Workbench app in the browser!
Read more [world.hey.com]
Character Development
An important post by Nico.
Read more [nicoverbruggen.be]
The Source Of Readability
It's always nice to read good post on code reability.
Read more [loup-vaillant.fr]
Fast database queries are not always better
Tim McDonald explains Laravel's cool whenQueryingForLongerThan method.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Why does a backslash prefix improve PHP function call performance
Personally, I've never done this, as it feels like a micro-optimizations, but still good to know.
Read more [www.deviaene.eu]
All-hands planning meetings are probably a waste of time
Spicy headline, but good food for thought!
Read more [mikeveerman.substack.com]
Craft emails that look good in each email client using MJML original
In a perfect world, email clients can render HTML as good as major browsers. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Email clients don't support modern HTML and CSS niceties and have a lot of quirks to be mindful of. Making sure an HTML email looks good in the most used email clients takes a lot of work.
To make crafting HTML emails a lot more enjoyable, the folks at Mailjet created a solution called MJML, which stands for "Mailjet Markup Language." It's an easy-to-use abstraction layer over HTML.
We have created a new package called spatie/mjml-php to easily convert MJML to HTML using PHP. If you're using Sidecar, you'll be happy to know that we've also created a package called spatie/mjml-sidecar, to convert MJML to HTML using Sidecar.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Why Agility–not Agile–is the Best Tool for Project Management
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
There are a many ways to organize software projects, each with their pros and cons. I’ll break down a few common methodologies, and share smarter ways of working that enable your team to remain flexible.
Read more [tighten.com]
