PHP
Making a complete file uploader with progressbar using Livewire and Alpinejs
Build a file uploader that supports drag and drop and file selection, has a progressbar, filename preview and file removal. Read more
PHP
Stop mocking about: Event Dispatcher
It’s time to replace your mocked event dispatchers with a real one. Read more
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Catching Up Laravel
If you’re running a Laravel application in the 5’s, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don’t have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server’s PHP Read more…
PHP
Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?
Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it. Read more
PHP
Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/minute
Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL Read more
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Experimentally compiling PHP code to Rust
A blog post about an experiment that converts PHP to Rust and is capable of generating native binaries. Read more
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Deprecated dynamic properties in PHP 8.2
You might be afraid of this change, but most likely this won’t affect you. Read more
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The difference between Traits, Interfaces, and Abstract Classes in PHP
If you’ve been working with PHP regularly, chances are you’ve run across an Interface, Trait, or Abstract Class. At first glance, they might appear to have a few similarities between them, and it can be Read more…
PHP
The Slotted Counter Pattern
A very nice technique to decrease concurrency and prevent deadlocks. Read more