High Performance Laravel

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Go with the grain of HTTP

From the series Writing efficient applications

HTTP has multiple different verbs, and understanding the right ones to use can make it easier to cache the responses.

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Optimise your images

From the series Front end

Picking the wrong image format, or using too-large images, can hurt your site's performance significantly.

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Queue what you can

From the series Writing efficient applications

Laravel's queue implementation can be very helpful for improving performance, but it's easy to miss many good use cases

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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