Articles tagged #laravel
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6 Rules of thumb to build blazing fast web server applications
This post highlights 6 important rules to keep in mind when developing performant web applications: avoid premature optimization, do the minimum required work, defer non-critical tasks, leverage caching, avoid N+1 queries, and design for horizontal scaling. Following these guidelines will help you write efficient code from the start and build apps ready to handle growth.
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Developing a web application with Lumen and MySql
This tutorial shows step-by-step how to bootstrap a Lumen project, configure MySQL, create migrations and models, seed the database, define routes and templates to build a fully working motivational quote web app in less than 30 minutes.