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How do database indexes work?
This post will walk through how database indexes work, with a particular focus on MySQL, everyone’s (well, many people’s) favorite homegrown organic database. Read more
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Why working code is not enough? Write Better Laravel, Part 2
You’ll learn the difference between “tactical” and “strategic” programming, and why choosing the right approach is important in the long run. Read more
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Writing open source source software
A nice lighting talk given by my colleague Seb at the first edition of Full Stack Europe.
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Speed Up Your PHP HTTP Guzzle Requests With Concurrency
Guzzle can do this out of the box! This technique is also used to power some of the checks in Oh Dear. Read more
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Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins
I wonder if Laravel should use this technique by default. It seems to have a major positive impact on performance. Read more
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Can PHPStan find Dead Public Methods?
Thomas Votruba explains how you can go about this. Read more
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Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders.
Pretty cool what you can do with CSS nowadays Read more
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A Lot Less Node with Airdrop
Airdrop determines when you can skip building static assets, saving a LOT of time and server resources in continuous integration and deployment. Read more
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Invokable custom validation rules in Laravel
Povilas demonstrates a nice little features that was recently added to Laravel.