Category: Laravel

Poor performance of Eloquent ORM in comparison to Doctrine

In the last article, I compared two ORMs: Eloquent mostly related to Laravel, and Doctrine associated with Symfony. I presented a comparison on why reading data from the database would be much more performant using read models instead of slow ORM models with slow hydration. Read models, of course, are the best way to read data from the database, but I didn’t properly present the comparison of ORMs, which was pointed out by one user on Reddit.

Container Efficiency in Modular Monoliths: Symfony vs. Laravel

In the evolving landscape of software development, modular monolith architectures have gained significant traction. This approach offers a balanced middle ground between traditional monolithic applications and microservices. However, choosing the right PHP framework for building modular monoliths is crucial, as it can have a profound impact on the application’s performance. The container performance, which is critical for dependency injection and managing service lifecycles, varies significantly between frameworks such as Symfony and Laravel. Despite the rise of framework-agnostic practices, the reality is that switching frameworks can be prohibitively expensive. It’s crucial to make an informed decision when choosing a framework. This article explores a comparative analysis of container performance in Symfony and Laravel within modular monolith architectures, offering engineers valuable insights to guide their framework selection.

Laravel: Bootstrap time optimization by using a hashtable to store providers

Having a profiler and performance monitoring is crucial for maintaining the efficiency and reliability of any application. Profilers help engineers identify bottlenecks by providing detailed insights into the application’s performance, such as memory usage, CPU load, and execution time of various functions.

Uncovering the bottlenecks: An investigation into the poor performance of Laravel’s container

Last time I’ve been analyzing the performance of Laravel’s container. I’ve encountered that the application spends a lot of time building dependencies, especially for heavy endpoints. That was strange because I would rather expect the relevant logic should be the heaviest part of the request.

Laravel – AggregateServiceProvider affects the performance

Some time ago I started wondering about the long bootstrap time of an application based on Laravel. I’ve started debugging and have figured out that this problem was related to the lack of deferred providers. It was strange because we’ve used a lot of deferred providers. After more debugging, we’ve found that AggregateProviders doesn’t respect deferred providers.
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Laravel – variadic parameter trap

What do you expect from the framework if the dependency cannot be created? Sure, it should be an exception, but I had an unpleasant surprise.