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01. Introduction

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Laravel handles a lot of performance-related stuff for you behind the scenes. But while you're building apps, there are some absolutely essential things that you need to keep in mind to keep your apps running as quickly as possible. In this course, I'm going to cover the fundamentals of Laravel performance that
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every Laravel developer should know. And that's everything from monitoring performance really easily to egoloading, reducing query speed with the use of selected specific columns, indexing to reduce query speed, and loads more.
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If you'd like to follow along, there's an example project ready to download in the course downloads, and then the next episode will set it up. Now, if you'd prefer just to watch, no worries. Just head over to episode three to get started.

Episode summary

Welcome to the course! In this introduction, we talk about how Laravel already takes care of a lot of performance stuff for you, right out of the box. But as you’re building your applications, there are some important things every Laravel developer should know to keep things running fast and smooth.

We’ll give you an overview of the fundamentals we’ll cover—like easy ways to monitor your app’s performance, using eager loading, making your database queries quicker by selecting only the columns you need, adding indexes, and plenty more techniques that really make a difference.

For hands-on learners, there’s an example project included with the course downloads, and in the next episode we’ll walk through setting that up. Or if you’d rather just watch and learn, you can skip ahead to episode three. Let’s get started!

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