High Performance with Laravel Octane

High Performance with Laravel Octane

by Roberto Butti
Released January 2023
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781801819404

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Book description

Explore tools, techniques, and practices to remove performance bottlenecks and enhance the stability of your Laravel and PHP web applications

Key Features

  • Get a complete view of what it takes to design and build a high-performing application with Octane
  • Reuse objects across requests and execute application logic asynchronously
  • Learn key elements to design and build a performance-optimized and production-ready application

Book Description

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.

Table of contents

  1. High Performance with Laravel Octane
  2. Contributors
  3. About the author
  4. About the reviewers
  5. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
    4. Download the example code files
    5. Download the color images
    6. Conventions used
    7. Get in touch
    8. Share Your Thoughts
    9. Download a free PDF copy of this book
  6. Part 1: The Architecture
  7. Chapter 1: Understanding the Laravel Web Application Architecture
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Exploring the Laravel ecosystem
    3. Understanding the HTTP request lifecycle
      1. The structure of an HTTP request
      2. Handling an HTTP request
      3. HTTP requests and Laravel
    4. Getting to know the application server for Laravel Octane
      1. What are workers?
    5. Understanding performance measurement in Laravel Octane
    6. Summary
  8. Part 2: The Application Server
  9. Chapter 2: Configuring the RoadRunner Application Server
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Setting up a basic Laravel application
      1. Getting the Laravel installer
      2. Installing a new Laravel web application from scratch
    3. Installing RoadRunner
      1. Executing the RoadRunner application server (without Octane)
    4. Installing Laravel Octane
    5. Launching Laravel Octane
    6. Laravel Octane and RoadRunner advanced configuration
    7. Summary
  10. Chapter 3: Configuring the Swoole Application Server
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Setting up Laravel Octane with Swoole using Laravel Sail
      1. Setting up Laravel Sail
      2. Installing Laravel Octane
      3. Setting up Laravel Octane and Swoole
    3. Installing Open Swoole
    4. Before editing the code
    5. Exploring Swoole features
      1. Concurrent tasks
      2. Interval command execution
      3. Caching
      4. Swoole Table
      5. Metrics
    6. Summary
  11. Part 3: Laravel Octane – a Complete Tour
  12. Chapter 4: Building a Laravel Octane Application
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Installing and setting up the dashboard application
      1. Installing your Laravel application
      2. Adding a database
      3. Sail versus local tools
      4. Adding Octane to your application
      5. Activating Swoole as the application server
      6. Verifying your configuration
      7. Summarizing installation and setup
    3. Creating a dashboard application
      1. Creating an events table
      2. Seeding data
      3. Improving the speed of the seed operation
      4. Executing the migrations
      5. The routing mechanism
      6. Creating the controller
      7. Creating the query
      8. The DashboardController file
      9. Rendering the view
    4. Making parallel HTTP requests
      1. Managing HTTP errors
    5. Understanding the caching mechanism
    6. Refactoring the dashboard
      1. The result
    7. The cache configuration
    8. Summary
  13. Chapter 5: Reducing Latency and Managing Data with an Asynchronous Approach
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Optimizing queries with indexes
      1. Creating indexes
      2. Creating full-text indexes
      3. Optimized queries and caching
    3. Making the cache mechanism asynchronous
      1. Implementing the tick() function in the application service provider
      2. Implementing the controller that reads the cache
      3. Implementing routing
      4. Showing the results
    4. Summary
  14. Part 4: Speeding Up
  15. Chapter 6: Using Queues to Apply the Asynchronous Approach in Your Application
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Introducing the queue mechanism in Laravel
    3. Installing and configuring the queue
    4. Managing the queues
      1. The classical synchronous approach
      2. The asynchronous approach
      3. Managing multiple queues
    5. Managing queues with Redis and monitoring them
      1. Installing Redis
      2. Configuring Redis
      3. Monitoring queues with Laravel Horizon
    6. Summary
  16. Chapter 7: Configuring the Laravel Octane Application for the Production Environment
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Introducing the production architecture
      1. Managing public static assets
      2. Setting nginx as a proxy
      3. Launching Octane
      4. Launching Octane via Supervisor
      5. Listening events
    3. Prepping a Laravel application for production
      1. Installing the packages for production
      2. Caching config, routing, and views
      3. Disabling Debug mode
    4. Deployment approaches
    5. Summary
  17. Index
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Product information

  • Title: High Performance with Laravel Octane
  • Author(s): Roberto Butti
  • Release date: January 2023
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781801819404