Database performance is a critical factor that can significantly impact user experience and overall system efficiency. When it comes to relational databases, we’ve favoured MariaDB’s fork of MySQL for a long time. It stood out to us as a more robust, scalable and versatile relational database choice. However, achieving optimal…

Something for free? In 2023? Never. We feel the collective sigh of everyone as continue navigating the forever increasing subscription-driven digital world in which we live. As all modern services, from entertainment platforms to software tools, vie for attention with monthly fees, businesses — not just individuals — are becoming…

Documentation’s one of those things that you might think is a nice to have, which couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s like Test Driven Development (TDD), if you’re not doing it as you go it can be an overwhelmingly involved task to complete after the fact. There’s not a…

This article is a continuation from part one, where we read remote information from Medium via the RSS feed before outputting it onto our web page in WordPress. Store it in WordPress? Let’s start with “why” Why bother? The code in part one works, we have a feed showing and that should be that, right? Well, not exactly. …

Full disclosure: you will need some development skills, though. This is a two-part exercise too — the first will simply look at how we can include Medium articles in our WordPress website. …

TL;DR: Serve a website from the project root instead of the public directory and you will expose your .env file, potentially leading to huge security issues with sensitive data leakage. What’s the fuss about and what’re the risks? 🙄 The public directory in your Laravel project plays a crucial role in your application's structure. It serves as the entry point for the application and is the most secure folder to serve your production website from.

Before we go anywhere, let’s just cover off the difference between synchronous and asynchronous code execution. Synchronous: This refers to code execution where tasks are sequentially, one after another, worked through where the current task must be completed before the next one can begin. Asynchronous: Refers to code executuions that…

Written by Ian Austin, CEO at Ascend. For as long as I’ve been running businesses, blogging on our corporate website has been painful. The business is all over it when a website is redesigned but then interest quickly dies off as client project work takes over. Blogging though is one…

With Laravel’s annual release of a new major version, some can be forgiven for struggling to keep up. If all of a sudden they find themselves a couple of versions behind, updating and upgrading goes from being a time-consuming task to something they don’t even want to consider. Each new…