High Performance with Laravel Octane: Learn to fine-tune and optimize PHP and Laravel apps using Octane and an asynchronous approach

Cover Page....2

Table of Contents....3

Preface....4

Part 1: The Architecture....12

Chapter 1: Understanding the Laravel Web Application Architecture....13

Technical requirements....15

Exploring the Laravel ecosystem....15

Understanding the HTTP request lifecycle....18

Getting to know the application server for Laravel Octane....24

Understanding performance measurement in Laravel Octane....32

Summary....38

Part 2: The Application Server....39

Chapter 2: Configuring the RoadRunner Application Server....40

Technical requirements....41

Setting up a basic Laravel application....42

Installing RoadRunner....46

Installing Laravel Octane....53

Launching Laravel Octane....55

Laravel Octane and RoadRunner advanced configuration....57

Summary....62

Chapter 3: Configuring the Swoole Application Server....63

Technical requirements....64

Setting up Laravel Octane with Swoole using Laravel Sail....66

Installing Open Swoole....72

Before editing the code....74

Exploring Swoole features....75

Summary....90

Part 3: Laravel Octane – a Complete Tour....92

Chapter 4: Building a Laravel Octane Application....93

Technical requirements....95

Installing and setting up the dashboard application....95

Creating a dashboard application....108

Making parallel HTTP requests....126

Understanding the caching mechanism....131

Refactoring the dashboard....136

The cache configuration....139

Summary....140

Chapter 5: Reducing Latency and Managing Data with an Asynchronous Approach....141

Technical requirements....142

Optimizing queries with indexes....142

Making the cache mechanism asynchronous....153

Summary....157

Part 4: Speeding Up....158

Chapter 6: Using Queues to Apply the Asynchronous Approach in Your Application....159

Technical requirements....160

Introducing the queue mechanism in Laravel....160

Installing and configuring the queue....162

Managing the queues....165

Managing queues with Redis and monitoring them....173

Summary....182

Chapter 7: Configuring the Laravel Octane Application for the Production Environment....184

Technical requirements....184

Introducing the production architecture....185

Prepping a Laravel application for production....196

Deployment approaches....199

Summary....206

Index....208

Why subscribe?....217

Other Books You May Enjoy....219

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Download a free PDF copy of this book....223

Laravel Octane is a very powerful component in the Laravel ecosystem that can help you achieve remarkable app performance. With Laravel Octane, you will find tools (queues, cache, and tables) that facilitate a new asynchronous approach for improving application performance.

This book highlights how Laravel Octane works, what steps to take in designing an application from the start, what tools you have at your disposal, and how to set up production environments. It provides complete coverage of the strategies, tools, and best practices to make your apps scalable and performant. This is especially important as optimization is usually the overlooked part in the application development lifecycle. You will explore the asynchronous approach in Laravel and be able to release high-performing applications that have a positive impact on the end-user experience.

By the end of this book, you will find yourself designing, developing, and releasing high-performance applications.

What You Will Learn:

• Understand the dynamics of the request life cycle in a classic Laravel application
• Explore possibilities with OpenSwoole and Roadrunner and choose the best solution for your application
• Analyze the potential bottlenecks of a classic web application
• Configure Laravel Octane with Roadrunner and OpenSwoole
• Implement functionality using asynchronous mechanisms and run tasks in parallel in the Laravel app
• Prepare the production environment to host Laravel Octane and its dependencies
• Understand the pros and cons of applying potential enhancements to your Laravel app

Who this book is for:

The book is for existing Laravel developers who want to improve their software architecture, from a basic or standard architecture to a more scalable and performant one. Basic knowledge of Laravel fundamentals is required.