Tobias Petry

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9 Sept 2025

The State Of Laravel 2025 results are live! Sadly, this year we didn't reach the same number of participants as last years. So please subscribe to the newsletter to be notified next years. stateoflaravel.com 1/3

9 Sept 2025

Interesting findings: 👉 Female ratio dropped after increasing two years 😢 👉 Many new devs from South America 👉 New Laravel devs decreasing year after year (why?) 👉 Devs are switching from PHPStorm to VSCode and other editors (ai? the new VSCode plugin? 👉 TypeScript is booming 🌟 2/3

9 Sept 2025

👉 many using Postgres (why now? Aaron's course?) 👉 Intertia+React is not the most popular stack but increasing a lot year-over-year 👉 Application Performance Monitoring increased by 11% (seems Nightwatch is a big success?) 👉 Big jump in devs disagreeing with Laravel's direction (why?) 3/3

8 Aug 2025

My free course about fast analytics with TimescaleDB is near - after a long time. The design is almost finished and I am beautifying the first two modules now for a release at start of September. So happy the first things will finally be released 😃

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22 July 2025

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23 Apr 2025

I completely missed that my Laravel PostgreSQL driver crossed 1 million downloads two weeks ago! Never imagined so many using it 🤯

4 Mar 2025

Sometimes you're just too stupid... I've been fiddling with a new server for 3 hours to get VPN and firewall working. But somehow my service I wanted to test was never reachable over VPN - no matter what I tried... The VPN has its own firewall and I didn't allow the service 🙃

1 Mar 2025

Chrome disabled ad blockers, Edge now starts doing the same, Firefox changed its policies to allow selling data about you… Is there really any good browser left? Safari?

25 Feb 2025

I am working on an interactive graph for the Timescale course to show that analytical queries get much slower the more data you have. Its fake numbers for now... Do you prefer the first or second one? I like that the 2nd one doesn't need an extra axis to describe the points.

24 Feb 2025

I am finishing right now the docs on how to use Timescale with Laravel by implementing a simplistic requests performance logging system. I am always amazed how easy you can build nice looking console output with Laravel ❤️

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21 Feb 2025

"The thing is…just don’t run SQLite server-side in production. Unless you have a really good reason." That's exactly what I always recommend! SQLite is a great database - until it is not anymore... Many things get really hard once your project grows. pid1.dev/posts/siren-...

21 Feb 2025

I've helped many companies help with their SQLite issues - and migrating off. Profitable for me. A lot of time wasted for them. There are good use-cases for SQLite. I've used it in the past and will again. But only when you really NEED what SQLite provides - not as a default.

19 Feb 2025

The US is now more like a comedy show - albeit not a a funny one.

12 Feb 2025

I am creating a new course this year. 🔥 I will share with you how to make analytics queries (e.g. dashboards) on large data incredibly fast using Timescale. Just a few PostgreSQL queries executed and you're done - it's magically easy. I love it and always recommend it! ❤️

So when will it be released? I won't work in silence for a long time and then release it. Instead, a new module will be released every month, and the course should be finished by the end of the year.

12 Feb 2025

You can follow me to see announcements of newly released modules and get a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff about the course creation. I am so enthusiastic about building this :)

And the best of it? I pitched my plan for the course to Timescale and asked them for a deal: They pay me for it so you can get it for free. They said YES. Isn't that awesome? IT WILL BE ENTIRELY FREE!

12 Feb 2025

This will be a written course again - as I believe its the best medium for learning. But it won't be boring! I am trying something new this time: Each module will be enriched with interactive elements to play with - inspired by the work of @samwho.dev. Learning should be fun!

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11 Feb 2025

In my opinion AI is not the reason that getting a job as a developer is so hard currently for many. Big companies just realized that they overhired so hard and have many employees doing barely anything. A ton of tire kickers. Fire and not rehire is a sane solution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=biUF...

11 Feb 2025

On the other hand, the hiring process is definetely broken because of AI: 1. Devs using AI to spam applications to every existing open position 2. Companies using AI to filter applications because of too much spam 3. Repeat at 1 🙃

6 Feb 2025

🥳 Some great news next week. I am so full of energy for this year...

3 Feb 2025

OpenSource is a lot of hard work. Sometimes fun, sometimes daunting - depending on how nice your users are. And sometimes you would like to know WHO is using your stuff and WHY: I don't know why my install count is skyrocketing and I will never know - but really would love to

2 Feb 2025

Have fun everyone at Laracon EU tomorrow. I had to skip this year for family reasons but will be there next year again. Can we get some warmed location like Lissabon again? 😅

29 Jan 2025

Does anyone know of a package to integrate markdown with blade? So, for example embedding blade components into markdown. I know that @aaronfrancis.com worked on it for his blog but never released it. Could need something currently too.

🚀 New feature for my enhanced Laravel PostgreSQL driver: Migration support for Timescale to do very fast analytics 👇 A quick overview of the easy steps you can do to get fast analytics on big data

But my most favourite feature is continuous aggregates: Why execute the same queries all the time when a user views the dashboard? Let Timescale create a new table for a specific query and let it auto-update the values - IN REALTIME! That's a gamechanger for performance 🔥

github.comGitHub - tpetry/laravel-postgresql-enhanced: Support for many missing PostgreSQL specific featuresSupport for many missing PostgreSQL specific features - tpetry/laravel-postgresql-enhanced

I definitely recommend checking out Timescale when you are analytics with PostgreSQL/MySQL are getting slow! Checkout the other cool features you could be using with my PG driver. In case you are missing some advanced PostgreSQL features, feel free to open an issue. github.com/tpetry/larav...

But if we decide we still need the data after a long time? Its been deleted... When using Timescale Cloud, you can use data tiering: Instead of deleting the data, its moved from your DB to Amazon S3. Its never gone! And you can still query it like before 🤯

Those policies are awesome to have everything happen automatically. But sometimes you are changing rows after those policies have been executed by e.g. importing old data from a 3rd party system. You can then also run all these actions manually again!

Next we're activating compression to have less data to scan when querying the table -> faster performance. The data can sometimes be compressed by 90% 🤯 All of this will happen in the background too with our compression policy that will compress all data older than 3 days.

Even after compression, disk usage will grow and grow indefinitely when inserting billions of rows a day. But we're not interested in data older than a year 🤔 So we're creating a policy that everything older than 1 year will automatically be deleted - within milliseconds!

First, we're telling Timescale to transform our table into a hypertabe and (invisibly) create new sub tables for every day. This is our entrypoint for all the magic that is now being applied.

All data is always sorted by the insertion time. So data for one website is spread through the table -> not great for performance We can ask Timescale to automatically reorder the rows in those daily tables so that data for the same website is nearby.