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Increase Database Performance By Using Multiple Columns
By thinking outside of the box, you can often get much faster database performance by splitting values across multiple database columns. Read more
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Efficient Distance Querying in MySQL
A clever use of MySQL indexes and generated columns to make blazing fast geolocation searches. Read more
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Database and Eloquent ORM: New features and improvements since the original Laravel 8 release (1/2)
In this series, I show you new features and improvements to the Laravel framework since the original release of version 8. This week is about the Database and Eloquent features in Laravel 8. Read more
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A look at new features and improvements since the original Laravel 8.0 release: Collections
The Laravel team released so many great Laravel 8.x updates over the last year, it’s incredible! I wrote a series of blog posts highlighting some of the best new features and improvements. Today: Collections. Read Read more…
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The Visitor Pattern in PHP
The Visitor Pattern opens up your entities to extension without changing them (much); and keeps the code separate. Read more
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★ How to test that an Eloquent model actually exists
In your tests, you might have used assertDatabaseHas to make sure that a model actual is persisted. it(‘will not delete a user’, function() { $user = User::find(1); // perform some logic of which you want Read more…
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Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests
Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source or frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy. Read more
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How to update large data in Laravel
Here are a few best practices for working with a large tables. Read more
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★ Laravel Worldwide Meetup #11: Building APIs & Models/Spotlight With Livewire
Here’s the recording of the latest edition of the Laravel Worldwide meetup. Philo Hermans showed off two great Livewire packages that he made. Steve McDougall did a cool live coding session on how to build Read more…