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Posts tagged: Laravel

Inertia.js: Building Single-Page Apps the Old Way

Update: We’ve written a newer, more detailed tutorial on Inertia using Laravel Jetstream. I’ve been building Laravel apps for years now. From large, data-heavy apps like Mergebot (RIP 😢) and… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Dec 4, 2019

How Laravel Valet Works Exactly

Developers tend to love messing about with their local development environments to see what fits their project requirements and workflow best. Since its launch in 2016, Laravel Valet has quickly… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Oct 8, 2019

Optimizing Laravel Part 4: Queues, Front-end & Opcache Considerations

This is article 4 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what object caching is and how and when to use it to… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Aug 13, 2019

Optimizing Laravel Part 3: Improving Performance with Object Caching

This is article 3 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what a database index is and how we can use database indexing… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Jun 5, 2019

Optimizing Laravel Part 2: Improving Query Performance with Database Indexing

This is article 2 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at some simple commands and some basic code tweaks we could use to… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Mar 26, 2019

Optimizing Laravel Part 1: The Basics

This is article 1 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” Laravel is a very popular PHP framework these days and can be used for a range of web applications,… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Feb 5, 2019

Mergebot Now 1,200% Faster: Tuning a Laravel App with Blackfire

We just hit a huge milestone in our Mergebot beta by lifting the 1,000 queries per deployment limit 🎉. We created Mergebot to make merging WordPress databases easy. When we… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Apr 11, 2017

Scaling a Cron: Checking Hundreds of Sites Every Minute

In my last article I described how I built a cloud app using Laravel Spark. Web Uptime is a website uptime and monitoring app that checks your website’s status every… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Aug 23, 2016

Building a SaaS app with Laravel Spark: Web Uptime

If you keep up with the Laravel community at all you’ll be aware that Taylor Otwell recently released his much anticipated SaaS scaffolding library called Spark. Spark is a library… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Jun 21, 2016

Using React and Laravel Lumen to Build a Company Status Board

A few months ago I bought an Apple Cinema display to use with my Macbook Pro. My plan was to use both screens, my Cinema display as my primary screen… Read more

Gilbert Pellegrom

Nov 17, 2015