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Scale up your Laravel App using Laravel Octane

Laravel is one of the most trending frameworks nowadays, and being a favorite among product owners for small-scale online apps, Laravel has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Laravel still feels like a tough nut when creating a large-scale application.

This blog post has discussed Laravel Octane, the newest addition to the Laravel framework, and the hype it has generated in the market for scaling Laravel applications and bridging the scalability gap that Laravel's product owners have been experiencing.

The most recent product offered by the Laravel Team is Laravel Octane. The use of Swoole and RoadRunner gives our Laravel application a speed boost. It creates a dependency container for the Laravel framework during bootstrapping, saves it in RAM, and eliminates the bootstrapping procedure from each request to deliver lightning-fast replies.

Reasons you should start using Laravel Octane!
Laravel Octane is a open-source platform which include packages that use by Laravel applications that connect to Swoole and RoadRunner to provides best performance with this. It happen with one request, memory, which is not set with request of subsequaent.

These are the major key feature of Laravel octane:

  • It’s give a quick boost of your application.
  • Compared to other Laravel applications, it uses fewer resources.

Let’s see how Laravel octane works:
The performance of your Laravel application can be improved by up to 30% thanks to Octane, which keeps your data and objects in memory. Since the Laravel application can manage thousands of connections quickly, it contributes to the increase in traffic or the requirement for high availability.

This improvement in performance is due to the elimination of disc reads, process forks, and various other overheads that become active whenever the framework is booted up on every request. Additionally, this is a cost-effective and productive strategy.

In certain cases, the codebase only has to be modified slightly or not at all. But it's connected to the organisation of your application.

  • Octane Open Swoole
  • Octane Roadrunner

Alright, So Why Laravel Octane?
We all appreciate performance enhancements, don't we? Laravel Octane will unquestionably provide your Laravel application a significant performance boost. Is this performance improvement really necessary? Well, possibly; I believe it depends on the application you are using. However, what matters more to me is that Laravel is once again pushing PHP's capabilities. Not only does Octane push interesting new PHP capabilities like coroutines, ticks, and generally the idea of serving your own application with an artisan command, it also mandates at least PHP 8.

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