laravel-eloquent-query-cache VS laravel-medialibrary

Also this package (there are many alternatives) handing cache option now, https://github.com/renoki-co/laravel-eloquent-query-cache

We're beginning to hit a threshold for queries and need to start implementing a query cache fairly soon using something like: https://github.com/renoki-co/laravel-eloquent-query-cache. We already have Redis running for our general Caching and Session storage and that sits on a dedicated Redis instance in AWS. We take a small performance hit from network latency overall, but its not that noticeable, however we are about to add in-transit encryption which further decrease performance.

I didn't want to use the query to cache it because I still want to have control of the key, it's mainly an alias for Cache::remember. If you want that kind of cache, there are already some packages out there (like this https://github.com/renoki-co/laravel-eloquent-query-cache)

I have it working ok for a single image using this idea but need the user to be able to add multiple images.

The current version as of writing this is 10.5.2 released 8 days ago.

Use this, i use it in all my projects.

An example of a good use of a polymorphic relationship can be seen in the Rails Active Storage module, which allows you to attach files to a model, and instead of duplicating the database columns and tables for each model that has attachments, there are two general tables: activestorage_attachments (attachments; relationship info) and activestorage_blobs (blobs; file info). A model can have one or many attachments (has_one_attachment and has_many_attachments, both can be used more than once depending on your needs), an attachment belongs to a record (record_id and record_type) and belongs to a blob (blob_id), and blobs have one attachment. You can access an attachment attribute on the related model like so, user.avatar # has_one_attachment(:avatar); or for many attachments of the same type, user.photos # an array of attachments; has_many_attachments(:photos). There’s a Laravel package similar to this called spatie/laravel-medialibrary.

For storing files and associating them with models, I can highly recommend Spatie's Media Library. Used it in a project recently and haven't had any hassle with it.