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Laravel’s safety mechanisms

planetscale.com

Laravel is a mature PHP web application framework with built-in support for almost everything modern applications need. But we’re not going to cover all of those features here! Instead, we’ll look at a topic that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough: Laravel’s many safety features that can help prevent painful mistakes. By Aaron Francis.

We rebuilt our entire application

usefathom.com

We had technical debt, a framework nobody knew and a bottleneck from hell.. How and why the Fathom team rewrote their application.

Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins

aaronfrancis.com

Paginating records across large datasets in a web application seems like an easy problem that can actually be pretty tough to scale. The two main pagination strategies are offset/limit and cursors. We'll first take a look at the two methods and then a slight modification that can make offset/limit extremely performant.