---
title: "Improving Laravel Sanctum Personal Access Token Performance"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/improving-laravel-sanctum-personal-access-token-performance-wq8foaeps
source_url: https://wearnhardt.com/2020/09/improving-laravel-sanctum-personal-access-token-performance/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-12-23T22:14:13.259Z
updated: 2024-12-23T22:14:40.526Z
tags: ["performance", "authentication", "php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 40
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Improving Laravel Sanctum Personal Access Token Performance

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 3 min read · 40 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

The post discusses an issue with Laravel Sanctum personal access tokens where updating the `last_used_at` column caused a performance bottleneck due to frequent database writes. It provides a solution by creating a custom `PersonalAccessToken` model that overrides the `save()` method to prevent unnecessary writes. The implementation steps include generating the model, modifying the `save()` method, and configuring Sanctum to use the custom model, resulting in improved performance.

## Full article

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**@shurgith** · 0 upvotes

> 16 de septiembre de 2020

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Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel)

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