Laravel Octane High Performance

Introduction

Laravel Octane supercharges your application's performance by serving it using persistent application servers like Swoole and RoadRunner. This eliminates the overhead of bootstrapping Laravel for each request.

Installation

Install Octane via Composer:

composer require laravel/octane

Install the Swoole extension:

pecl install swoole

Publish configuration:

php artisan octane:install

Swoole Server

Start the Octane server with Swoole:

php artisan octane:start --server=swoole

Configure Swoole in octane.php:

return [
    'server' => [
        'driver' => 'swoole',
        'count' => 8,
        'options' => [
            'task_worker_count' => 4,
            'max_request' => 10000,
        ],
    ],
];

RoadRunner Server

Install RoadRunner binary:

php artisan octane:download

Start with RoadRunner:

php artisan octane:start --server=roadrunner

Octane Tables

Octane provides in-memory tables for caching:

use Laravel\Octane\Facades\Octane;

Octane::table('users')->set('user:1', [
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => 'john@example.com'
]);

$user = Octane::table('users')->get('user:1');

Concurrent Tasks

Execute tasks concurrently:

use Laravel\Octane\Facades\Octane;

$responses = await Octane\concurrent([
    fn() => Http::get('https://api.github.com/users/octane'),
    fn() => Http::get('https://api.github.com/users/laravel'),
    fn() => Http::get('https://api.github.com/users/taylor'),
]);

Optimization Tips

• Use prepared statements for database queries
• Leverage Octane tables for frequently accessed data
• Cache configuration and routes
• Use eager loading to avoid N+1 queries
• Enable opcache for PHP
• Use concurrent requests for parallel operations

Summary

Laravel Octane provides excellent performance improvements for Laravel applications. By using persistent application servers like Swoole or RoadRunner, you can dramatically reduce request latency and handle more concurrent users.

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