Blog posts about Laravel

Quick tip: Reduce your Docker Image size when using the League Flysystem s3 adapter

Flysystem is a fantastic library to interact with the filesystem and adding support for interacting with an S3 bucket is very easy, but it comes with the downside of having to include the massive AWS PHP SDK. Let's fix that!

Posted on: January 22nd, 2023

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Automating Laravel deployment using Ansible

Deploying changes to your websites is often a very repetitive task. Repetition means you can automate the entire process. To do this, you can use Ansible, because it's easy to set up and doesn't require any special software on the remote machine.

Posted on: June 7th, 2020

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How I added Elasticsearch to a Laravel application on a server with minimal resources

In this post, I go over the steps I have taken to add Elasticsearch to an existing Laravel application on very minimal hardware resources. I also discuss the hurdles I had to overcome to achieve this.

Posted on: March 11th, 2020

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Creating an efficient CI pipeline with CircleCI, Docker, and Laravel

Find out what I've done to improve the efficiency in the CI pipeline with CircleCI and Docker for a PHP application. You won't even have to install any software yourself.

Posted on: October 23rd, 2019

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Improve query performance for polymorphic relationships in Laravel

In this post I'm explaining how you can improve the query performance for polymorphic relationships in Laravel, find out how I did it.

Posted on: July 29th, 2019

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