PHP
Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?
Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it. Read more
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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…
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The Slotted Counter Pattern
A very nice technique to decrease concurrency and prevent deadlocks. Read more
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★ Increase performance by using Laravel's `setRelation` method
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While working on the upcoming Oh Dear redesign, I noticed that list that displays all sites of a team was very slow.
To display that list, a lot of queries were used. With a couple of minor adjustments, I could reduce the number of queries needed to just a single one, solving the performance problem.
In this small blog post, I'd like to share one of the techniques I used.
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How the Laravel Login Link package works under the hood
Povilas Korop of Laravel Daily made a cool video on the internals of our spatie/laravel-login-link package.
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Composer 2.4 introduces two new commands: `bump` and `audit`
The best dependency manager just got a little bit better. Read more