--- title: Best Laravel Daily posts — May 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Laravel Daily posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldaily/best-of/2026/05 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldaily/best-of/2026/05 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Laravel Daily posts — May 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Laravel Daily posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Laravel Daily — May 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/insert-1m-rows-to-mysql-laravel-db-6-ways-benchmarks--fqntd5vtm "Insert 1M Rows to MySQL Laravel DB: 6 Ways (Benchmarks)") Video Laravel Daily · 18w Insert 1M Rows to MySQL Laravel DB: 6 Ways (Benchmarks) Benchmarks comparing 6 approaches to inserting 1 million rows into a MySQL database using Laravel, including Eloquent, factories, query builder, raw DB insert, and bulk native file loading. Key findings: bulk native (LOAD DATA INFILE) is fastest at \~5.5 seconds, while plain Eloquent is slowest due to per-row overhead like password hashing and timestamp generation. Factories are significantly faster than Eloquent for users because they hash the password only once. Query builder and raw DB insert achieve \~100,000 rows/second vs \~4,000 for factories. Also covers a streaming/chunked approach to minimize RAM usage (reducing peak memory from \~560MB to a stable low level) at the cost of slightly slower execution. 29 1 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/my-laravel-package-idea-for-data-stress-i-need-advice-ugzeswvni "My Laravel Package Idea for "Data Stress": I Need Advice") Video Laravel Daily · 17w My Laravel Package Idea for "Data Stress": I Need Advice A Laravel developer is sharing an early proof-of-concept package called 'Data Stress' that helps simulate large data loads on local or staging environments to identify performance bottlenecks before going to production. The package analyzes which database tables a given route touches, seeds a separate stress-test database with configurable amounts of fake data, runs the route multiple times, and reports average page load time and query counts. The demo shows how missing pagination causes dramatic slowdowns with 10,000 records. The author is seeking community feedback on UX, relationship mapping (especially polymorphic), and feature scope before releasing, and is undecided on free vs. paid model. 17 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-upsert-1m-rows-into-mysql-from-csv-5-ways-with-benchmarks-uxrne6ueq "Laravel Upsert 1M Rows into MySQL from CSV: 5 Ways with Benchmarks") Video Laravel Daily · 17w Laravel Upsert 1M Rows into MySQL from CSV: 5 Ways with Benchmarks A benchmark comparing five strategies for upserting 1 million rows into MySQL from a CSV file using Laravel. The strategies tested are: Eloquent's updateOrCreate (slowest, \~3000 rows/sec), Query Builder upsert, Eloquent upsert, raw SQL INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, and a custom 'smart split' approach that separates inserts and updates in PHP. Results show Query Builder and Eloquent upsert are \~10x faster than updateOrCreate, with nearly identical performance to each other. Raw SQL INSERT ON DUPLICATE is marginally faster but requires manual query building. The smart split PHP approach was slower overall and consumed more memory, confirming that letting the database handle upserts is more efficient. Key gotchas: upsert methods don't fire Eloquent events/observers, and Query Builder requires manual timestamp handling. 11 [See all Laravel Daily archives](/sources/laraveldaily/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldaily/best-of/2026/05#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldaily/best-of/2026/05","name":"Best Laravel Daily Posts — May 2026","description":"The most upvoted Laravel Daily posts from May 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldaily/best-of/2026/05#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/insert-1m-rows-to-mysql-laravel-db-6-ways-benchmarks--fqntd5vtm","name":"Insert 1M Rows to MySQL Laravel DB: 6 Ways (Benchmarks)"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-laravel-package-idea-for-data-stress-i-need-advice-ugzeswvni","name":"My Laravel Package Idea for \"Data Stress\": I Need Advice"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-upsert-1m-rows-into-mysql-from-csv-5-ways-with-benchmarks-uxrne6ueq","name":"Laravel Upsert 1M Rows into MySQL from CSV: 5 Ways with Benchmarks"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Laravel Daily","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldaily"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldaily/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"May 2026"}]}]} ```