Laravel
Laravel: architecture, performance and open source
Laravel at scale from first-hand work — an event-driven API on Octane, a platform stabilised under load, a Symfony migration — plus TomatoPHP and Laravilt.
I have built on Laravel since 2015, first as a freelance fullstack developer, then leading teams on it, and in parallel publishing the packages other Laravel teams use. The pattern that repeats in the work below is that a Laravel application rarely has a Laravel problem: it has a request doing work that belongs in a queue, a query that grew with the data, or a process that boots the framework more often than it needs to.
Laravel in production
- Naqrat — a conversion API from ~6 s to ~35 msRebuilt event-driven on Laravel Octane, handling millions of events.
- iStoria — an English-learning platform stabilised under load2.5M users and 165M+ records; performance resolved within three months.
- Rize — from Symfony to Laravel and Vue.jsMVP delivered on a tight deadline, codebase migrated.