Episode 124
When validation can protect your app's performance
No Compromises · Joel Clermont and Aaron Saray
April 12, 202512m 12s
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Show Notes
Joel and Aaron show how ignoring GET request validation can cause performance issues and open your application to abuse. They highlight the importance of bounding pagination and share tips for using form requests to handle unexpected user input.
Now go check out the best/only Laravel validation book
- (00:00) - Quiz on Laravel’s default pagination limit
- (01:00) - Performance concerns with large datasets
- (03:20) - Validating per-page requests in controllers
- (05:45) - Why you should block negative page numbers
- (09:20) - Silly bit
Topics
LaravelPHP