Tutorials | High Performance Laravel

Speed up bulk operations with transactions

From the series Faster database queries

Transactions are intended primarily to improve data integrity, but they can also improve performance when used appropriately

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Myth: Relational databases are too slow and don't scale

From the series Myth Busters

Relational databases are a good fit for most use cases, but there are some gotchas to be aware of when using them.

Myth: Using an ORM will slow your site down

From the series Myth Busters

You'll often hear misleading claims that using an ORM makes for slower database queries. This is actually due to naive usage.

Caching responses with the cache.headers middleware

From the series Writing efficient applications

Out of the box, Laravel supports a simple method of adding appropriate caching headers to HTTP responses to prevent unnecessary HTTP requests.

Disable htaccess for faster performance

From the series Server configuration

If you're using Apache as your web server, the htaccess file can be a significant performance bottleneck, and often an unnecessary one.

Myth: Performance is a matter of choosing the right framework

From the series Myth Busters

Performance benchmarks may seem a useful guide when picking a framework to develop your application in, but they need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Myth: PHP is slower than language X

From the series Myth Busters

There are languages where the runtime is faster than PHP. However, that's often irrelevant since the language runtime isn't usually a significant bottleneck.

Myth: You need to use Octane to get acceptable performance from Laravel

From the series Myth Busters

Laravel Octane is a useful way of improving application performance. However, it can't help with everything and you shouldn't use it as a crutch.

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