Hey, what’s up guys—this is Episode 3 of my “Not Just Another Todo App” series, and the whole focus is speed. As our Laravel Todo App grows (I seeded 1,000 todos to make it real), the dashboard starts slowing down because we’re doing heavier queries to build charts. In this video I build two Chart.js bar charts: daily todos for the current month (grouped by day) and weekly todos for that same month (grouped by week number). I also show how I prepare the labels and datasets on the server so the frontend stays clean. Then I measure everything properly using Laravel Debugbar—so we’re not guessing. You’ll literally see the page load time and the query timings change as we refresh. After that, Redis comes in to rescue the dashboard: I switch the cache store to Redis and wrap the heavy parts inside Cache::remember() with separate keys for daily and weekly stats. On the first load, the queries run; after that, the queries are gone and the load on the CPU drops. Finally, I make the cache correct by busting it when data changes. I create a TodoObserver and forget the cache keys on create, update, and delete—so the next dashboard visit regenerates fresh cached stats. I also deploy it to Cloudways, where Redis is already available, and show the same caching behavior in production.