Laravel
Laravel Optimization Playbook
Finding the real bottleneck in a Laravel application under load
Laravel is fast enough; applications are slow for a small number of repeatable, measurable reasons, and those should be found in a fixed order rather than by rewriting.
An application that got slower as it got busier does not need a new framework. It needs to be measured, then worked through in a fixed order: the query layer, then write contention, then cache invalidation, then queue saturation, then the runtime. This book runs that order with a measurement at every stage, and ends with the budgets and regression gates that stop the win from decaying the week after you ship it.
What it makes operable
- 01Profile before touching anything, and know which number you are moving
- 02Work the query layer, write contention and cache invalidation in that order
- 03Run queues, workers and Octane under load without introducing new failure modes
- 04Hold the gains with performance budgets and regression gates
Contents
13 of 13 published- 01Measure Before You Touch AnythingProfiles, traces, and a baseline that makes the next change arguable.11 min
- 02Where the Queue Forms: Workers, Connections, UtilisationFixed pools, arrival rate, and why the ninety-ninth percentile breaks first.12 min
- 03The Query Layer: N+1, Indexes, and Eloquent RealityWhat Eloquent actually emits, and the indexes it assumes you added.11 min
- 04Reading at Scale: Pagination, Projections, ChunkingCursor pagination, narrower selects, and not hydrating a million models.11 min
- 05Writing at Scale: Transactions, Locks, ContentionLock scope, deadlocks, and the hot row that serialises your whole workload.11 min
- 06Cache Layers and Their InvalidationTags, TTLs and stampedes, with an explicit rule for what may go stale.12 min
- 07Queues, Workers, and Horizon Under LoadHead-of-line blocking, retry storms, and backlog age as the alarm that matters.12 min
- 08Octane and Long-Lived ProcessesState that leaks between requests once the process stops dying.12 min
- 09HTTP: Payloads, Compression, and the EdgeResponse size, cache headers, and work you can stop doing entirely.11 min
- 10Front-End Cost You Are Paying on the ServerEvery component update is a server round trip, and you are paying for all of them.11 min
- 11The PHP Runtime: 8.3 to 8.5, OPcache, JITOPcache, preloading, and the JIT that PHP ships switched off.12 min
- 12Load Testing That Predicts ProductionRepresentative mixes, warm caches, and a test whose result you can believe.11 min
- 13Staying Fast: Budgets and Regression GatesPerformance budgets in CI, so the improvement survives the next quarter.12 min
Evidence
1 sourcesThird-party sources behind the book's premise. Every figure in them belongs to the party that published it and is attributed to them in the text.
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