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 Packt is searching for authors like you....222 Download a free PDF copy of this book....223