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You can customize the user agent that Laravel sends with the withUserAgent call. It can often happen that a WAF or other security system will block curl, PHP and Guzzle based requests.

This simple function will return the number of days remaining on an SSL certificate, including potentially negative values if it's expired.

A large majority of poor SQL performance in Laravel can be attributed to lazy loading. Queries that you think execute a single query may execute thousands.

A great performance tip for Laravel is the ability to send HTTP requests concurrently. This is especially useful when you are doing things like sending multiple webhooks and similar examples.

Over the years I've curated a list of countries that are good to target with platforms like Google Ads, for a SaaS business. Here is that list!

There is some great new content available on LoadForge for those wanting to load test a REST API, and we've documented it all from our own tests.