Learn how to identify inefficient SQL queries and use MySQL’s mysqlslap to measure their impact under concurrent access. Have you ever blamed PHP or Laravel for a slow application? Before blaming your framework, take a look at your SQL queries. A query can execute in milliseconds when you are the only user, but become a … Read more
Imagine your online store calls an external payment API every time a customer places an order. You already added timeouts. Your application no longer waits forever when the provider gets slow. But now a customer clicks “Pay,” the request times out, and your app shows an error. You think: “Easy. I’ll just retry.” The second … Read more
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You want to start a Laravel project. Before writing your first feature, you need to set up PHP, extensions, Composer, and a database. When you work on multiple projects, this setup becomes more complicated: each application may require different versions and configurations. Docker helps organize these dependencies into containers. And Laravel Sail provides a simple … Read more
You want Laravel to handle your API and Vue to handle the user interface. Keeping them in separate projects gives each application its own dependencies, source code, and build process. But it introduces a few questions: how do the containers communicate? Which address should the browser use? And where should you run npm commands? In … Read more
