🔥 This week's code tips for Laravel developers
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⚡ Database Tip
Some applications want to periodically delete old historic data (or have to because of regulations). Deleting billions of rows is a very slow task that could take several minutes and may take your application down. Use partitions for efficient deleting!
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🔥 #Laravel Tip:
The default encryption cast for Eloquent models uses the app key, making rotation difficult and allowing anyone with key to decrypt all the DB. To address this, consider creating a custom cast that uses the model to create its own unique key.
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🔥 #Laravel Tip: Rate-limiting is not only for throttling entire requests. You can also use it to throttle methods or parts of your code, which can be really useful when you need to protect things against spikes e.g. the DB.
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Yay! In Laravel 9.18 you can finally eager load ("with") using a nested array.
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