Speed improvement story 1

I’ve accumulated a number of tech stories from various projects over the years. I thought I’d write some down and share. This first one… I’ve told the highlight portion during interviews years ago, and it probably comes across as either total BS, or me seemingly not knowing what I’m talking about, or what not, but…

laravel bulk imports

Small note, mostly for myself, as a reminder that when doing large imports of data, you may not need each block to be processed as an Eloquent model. That code above would generally be faster as Obviously there are even faster ways – preparing your data in some text format, and using your DB cli…