Laravel
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Rollback Database Changes When Exceptions Occur
Have you ever run into scenarios where you write some code in your controller that writes a bunch of data to your database? I've often built out API endpoints that accept a big payload of data and...
October 21, 2020 | 3 minute read
ReadA Beginners Guide to Basic Indexing
I want to preface this post with a disclaimer; this literally is a 'beginners guide'. A while back, I was facing some performance issues with an application in production and this post is a...
March 21, 2020 | 11 minute read
ReadCustom Throttle Middleware
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, one of the biggest benefits of using a framework is that so many common use-cases or problems have already been solved - and throttling requests is no...
July 24, 2019 | 4 minute read
ReadCustomising the Email Verification Expiration Time
One of the biggest benefits of using a framework like Laravel is that so many of the common use-cases or problems have already been solved; email verification is no exception. Since Laravel 5.7, it...
July 8, 2019 | 3 minute read
ReadUsing Laravel Horizon outside of Production and Local
Laravel is pretty awesome as far as frameworks go. But what really makes it amazing is the suite of open-source software sitting behind it; one of which is Horizon. Horizon is a dashboard and...
February 11, 2019 | 3 minute read
ReadSetting the correct auth guard for your requests
When I'm writing controllers, I like to minimise the number of dependencies I need to use. This means reusing dependencies I'm already pulling in where I can, and for the most part the...
February 9, 2019 | 3 minute read
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