Laravel Octane: supercharge your Laravel applications

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In this video I give you an overview of Laravel Octane, a package that can supercharge your Laravel applications. Subscribe for more videos about the Laravel ecosystem in the coming weeks and months!
Laravel Octane docs: laravel.com/docs/11.x/octane.
Octane for Vapor: blog.laravel.com/vapor-octane...

[@Mikagaru444]

You're one of the best tech content creators out there. I don't even write PHP but I still watch your videos.

[@aarondfrancis]

That makes me so happy. Thank you!

[@Kane0123]

I second this. Still got no interest in PHP but Aaron is always worth listening to - who knows when one of these gems of knowledge will pay off.

[@aarondfrancis]

Yall are too kind. I appreciate it!

[@rafaelhernand3z]

Aaron++

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Same here 😅

[@GalaxyGazer929]

1. Got recommended 2. watched your video 3. subscribed

[@aarondfrancis]

😮‍💨😮‍💨 thank you

[@boubaker86]

same here

[@brunocmesquita]

I know you may hear this a lot, but I watch your content gracefully and am not a PHP developer. Great work! And by the way, I must say that the PHP community has many cool people.

[@aarondfrancis]

Thank you!

[@driden1987]

Aaron, I watched your planetscale MySql videos and I don't use MySql. Now I watch your Laravel videos and I think I only wrote a couple of php lines for Uni like 7 years ago. Looking forward to all your content!

[@aarondfrancis]

You're the best. Thank you for stopping by!

[@GalaxyGazer929]

​@@aarondfrancis what are planetscale MySql videos? I'm unable to find them on your channel?

[@Gornius]

@@GalaxyGazer929 They're on planetscale's channel. He used to be a host there.

[@nathanbrown2640]

​@@GalaxyGazer929 Aaron did videos for PlanetScale's KZbin channel - they are a company that host MySQL databases in the cloud for you. Aaron has a fantastic ability to explain a problem with both its motivation and beautiful solution. Genuinely found it so helpful for my own MySQL work, even though we don't use PlanetScale. Go look up their KZbin channel for the vids. 😊

[@kylclrk]

@@GalaxyGazer929 Aaron used to work for Planetscale, so he has a lot of videos over on their channel.

[@johnrudolphdrexler]

our boy is back

[@aarondfrancis]

It's our time baby

[@umairsaeed5925]

dudeeeeee no wayyyy I was searching for laravel octane just 5 min before this video

[@aarondfrancis]

I gotchu

[@FarazSamapoor]

It's always a treat watching your educational videos, Aaron. You guys rock!

[@SimoneFolador]

Thanks Aaron! I watched this video with great pleasure. The way you introduce Octane, as well as other arguments, is as always so easy to understand. Well done

[@cowgod77]

So great to have your excellent videos back in my feed!

[@TheArmanist]

Very nice video, and great explanation, looking forward to see more videos about octane, especially the process of installing and configuring it on server

[@languagelearningexperience6814]

So happy you're back!!! 🎉

[@feelingfun5149]

Finally - a concise and clear explanation!

[@tiagocouto9270]

it's because of you Mr Francis... now I'm here trying to understand why I've made the choice that I've made... re-learn laravel and watch mad max's high octanes. One person enters, a wiser one leaves

[@tom_zanna]

I love your videos: well balanced between intuition and technicality

[@aarondfrancis]

Thank you! I appreciate that a lot

[@bronsoncc]

good to see you again! looking forward to more

[@PhiloDev]

That intro animation is on point! Amazing quality as always 😎

[@himanshuahujaofficial7813]

As always great content, appreciate all the content you do. We all would love to see some series on databases from basis to becoming expert on databases.

[@aarondfrancis]

Will do!

[@pmareke]

Love it Aaron, congrats!

[@DanelonNicolas]

super nice! love the way to explain things :D I'll love to see the future of this playlist :D

[@mikulcek]

Aaron, thank you for keeping it bright and consistent! Finally, a video that doesn't feel like a strobe light test.

[@aarondfrancis]

2024 is the year of light mode for me!

[@mikulcek]

@aarondfrancis It's tedious to get dark mode right in the browser for simple examples. Matching the IDE theme to the browser background just seems smoother. Maybe I'm just nitpicking, though. Anyway, I love your phoenix moment-it's truly inspirational for all of us grinding away! Your attention to detail, even down to matching themes, showcases your resilience. Keep up the great work; there are many of us rooting for you!

[@harvenius]

*aaron fan club long applause* great video!

[@Pbertrand_dev]

High quality video! thanks

[@artisandev1097]

Wow! Thank you Aaron 🙏

[@HamzaAlAzhar]

Great content, Aaron!

[@Radiosabines]

Thank you for sharing Sir, i drink your words !

[@wcrb15]

It's so cool that Laravel has this now! Magento/Adobe Commerce just released their new application server that is based on OpenSwoole and has the same idea.

[@after_alec]

Wake up babe, Aaron’s back

[@aarondfrancis]

"babe you gotta stop waking me up to tell me about your internet friends" - alec's partner (probably)

[@fiskegalendbpk]

Been using octane on a project since August, and gotta say, it's surprisingly easy to get up and running. Haven't felt the performance yet but I imagine that'll come in handy once it goes live. Also, Octane tables with Swoole rocks!

[@MrZax-kl5si]

Love your content man

[@vishaldinesh]

Hey Mr. Dunphy, glad to see you back ❤

[@aarondfrancis]

At your service 🫡

[@kirayamato6128]

love you Aaron ❤️!

[@nym49]

First time I understood what this was doing 👍

[@peteremad5228]

love your videos ♥

[@DarylLegion]

Aaron delivers.

[@AirCode7]

missed you dude❤

[@theblckbird]

lol, the official Laravel Channel is currently doing the same kind of series But anyway, great video! Finally someone who explains this system :]

[@aarondfrancis]

Haha yeah, I saw that! 🙊

[@johnkarani2477]

This is awesome.

[@ComfyCosi]

Honey, wake up, the new Aaron Francis content is here

[@chrispian]

Best explainer of Octane. You're a really good educator. I have a project that I'm working on that will benefit from this greatly. Best to do it now while it's just getting started. Also, sqlite when? ;)

[@aarondfrancis]

Soon 🤐🤐

[@chrispian]

@@aarondfrancis I had a feeling you were cooking something up. Looking forward to it. (not actually in a hurry ).🤣

[@tanzimibthesam5861]

wow you are back though I expected a sqlite course. Keep going

[@aarondfrancis]

Soon!

[@nm6x]

I’ll follow you anywhere boss!

[@JustinJackson]

This is 🔥

[@jondoe79]

Crash the thumbs up button guys, the man is back!

[@a2zcourse]

thank you,

[@hanzofuma]

All this time, I was taught that php-fpm was made to resolve the issue of creating and killing the PHP process with every request.

[@ttng_]

love it! never used php but this is pretty cool considering laravel is being bootstraped on-request

[@chrisfidao6727]

Love Octane, especially in containers for reasons more related to logging than anything else 😂

[@dadamssg87]

Hey Chris, how does octane in containers help with logging? Do you know if Log::withContext() works with octane?

[@aarondfrancis]

I had to watch your video on Nginx + php-fpm to make sure I understood it before I recorded this video

[@dadamssg87]

Hey Chris, how does octane in containers help with logging? Do you know if Log::withContext() works with octane?

[@armaandhanji2112]

Amazing content. By the way, I might have missed it but why did most of the requests fail on the wrk test for Octane again?

[@aarondfrancis]

I think they're just 500 errors from load!

[@Voltra_]

Does Octane and/or its driver provide synchronization mechanisms to properly mutate shared state?

[@MundoTecChannel]

i love you Aaron Francis

[@ahmad-murery]

I wonder how this may affect some of things we usually do in PHP like user authentication/authorization for example. also, what about memory optimization, It's always a tradeoff between make things faster and make it less resource hungry. One must think twice before using Octane or similar tech. Thanks Aaron!

[@ahmedabdelaal6538]

Laravel Is stateless , With Octane laravel became statefull Great explanation, Thanks you Aaron

[@user-qm2uo6ht5l]

and this is bad stateless is always better as prevent lots of bugs

[@ahmedabdelaal6538]

@@user-qm2uo6ht5l it’s about the use-case, we cannot say that in general a lot of frameworks like rails or node are statefull

[@n3storm]

with octane frankenphp (or any other) multinenancy (subdomain) becomes a nightmare, curiosly it doesn't happen with frankenphp+caddy.

[@aarondfrancis]

Ah interesting, I haven't tried that.

[@gosnooky]

I've always wondered something about PHP - since it has to "boot" the application on each request, does it actually load all the PHP files that are included/required each time or does it cache them somehow with file watching so it recognizes changes to files? PHP seems to run so fast, but I/O operations are expensive.

[@aarondfrancis]

There is a thing called the OPcache that prevents IO thrashing www.php.net/manual/en/book.opcache.php

[@DoctorSoulis]

Lets gooooo!

[@siyabdev]

What about using it in production? and BTW, what package/tool are you using for this `wrk` mock fake requests load stuff?

[@aarondfrancis]

Yup you can use it in production quite easily! Especially with Forge. You just need to make sure you reload your workers on deploy as mentioned (just like your queue workers)

[@techietoons]

How to use it in production?. I am using VPS. I need to do php artisan octane:start, then what. How so i point my domain to this ?. Or do i still needs nginx/apache to catch the request and forward it ?.

[@mityukov]

Everyone's saying "you should approach writing your code differently with Octane" and I couldn't agree more... But how different exactly? Maybe, a screencast of turning some legacy app into an Octane-grade one with all the nuances explained? 😅

[@errores-me6yu]

barryvdh debugbar is very buggy with swoole, because it doesnt clear memory

[@Leonhart_93]

Everyone just shows the default localhost tutorial. I found that it's stupidly obscure to configure in a prod server environment. The default address and port doesn't seem to work, when it set to to https it doesn't like the certificates and so on. After many variations I still couldn't get it to work in prod.

[@KleiverCarrasco]

Good video, I had a question, with octane, what PHP should be used? TS or NTS?

[@aarondfrancis]

Sorry I'm not sure what you mean TS or NTS

[@KleiverCarrasco]

@@aarondfrancis oh, i mean php thread safe or non thread safe

[@shad966]

Thanks a lot Aaron. I just wanted to ask: "How do I host My Laravel app using Octane with FrankenPHP in a production Linux VPS server."

[@aarondfrancis]

I haven't ever worked with FrankenPHP so I'm not sure. I bet the docs are great

[@richardberubedev]

Me at 6:50 : Why is it not on by default ? Aaron at 7:00 : the question is going to be why would you not use Octane? Moral of the story, wait for the end before asking any question on Aaron videos 😂

[@aarondfrancis]

Haha whew, glad I answered it!

[@VibhuthaKumarage]

What is that chrome extension you are using?

[@AmeerHamza-cy6km]

laravel octane is great until client asks you to put on shared hosting

[@aarondfrancis]

Ha that does sound painful

[@grenadeflicks]

Curious to know if you can run different octane applications on the same server. Has anyone tried that? Great video keep them coming

[@aarondfrancis]

That's interesting! I'm sure it's possible but I haven't tried it

[@grenadeflicks]

Yeah I have a couple of bare metal servers with forge and I have a couple customers on each I am curious how octane would behave. Might need tweaking.

[@justinclarketx]

Love it! Is there a way we could support you directly? Like Patreon?

[@aarondfrancis]

You're kind to ask. Nope, just tell your friends!

[@karanahlawat9106]

Totally unrelated, but what's that font in your terminal? It looks a bit narrower than your regular JetBrains Mono

[@aarondfrancis]

I think it is just jetbrains mono!

[@karanahlawat9106]

@@aarondfrancis Fair, Macs just render fonts better 😄

[@aogunnaike]

Does that mean there's no need for redis for caching?

[@aarondfrancis]

Octane cache is strictly stored in memory and is cleared when you roll the worker, which you would on every deploy. So there are some tradeoffs!

[@_whatistruth]

"wrk" alternative for windows?

[@aarondfrancis]

No clue!

[@shavras76]

Hi Aaron, how to run Octane in standalone ?

[@aarondfrancis]

Not sure I understand the question. Sorry!

[@razvancomsa2276]

I'd really really like to use this but only for a new green field project ... There's a lot of hidden gotchas that I don't fully understand how it will impact the system and also a third party ecosystem. Octane breaks the default shared nothing architecture imo and it's a bit scary for me. I think the only way is to bite the bullet it and try to fix the issues as they appear in production ...

[@KrishnaChaitanya-jm7eq]

Now with octane, do we even need nginx?

[@aarondfrancis]

In production yeah, you'll want nginx for static assets I think

[@ricko13]

hey Aaron you look like the adult version of George Little (from the Stuart Little movie)

[@aarondfrancis]

Haha is this good or bad

[@rogerochadev]

great fucking video

[@mikethetreeclimber7]

Just join the laravel core team already would ya!!

[@aarondfrancis]

Haha! I just started my own company 🙊

[@ThePandaGuitar]

I click like before I watch, and I don't even use PHP

[@aarondfrancis]

You're a good egg 🫡

[@yezperdk]

Miss your PlanetScale videos! What happened?

[@aarondfrancis]

I got laid off!

[@ahmad-murery]

@@aarondfrancis Better for you Aaron, keep going and never lookback

[@yezperdk]

@@aarondfrancis Damn. Sorry to hear that. Best wishes!

[@edhahaz]

Oh wow php was doing cold starts before it was cool

[@aarondfrancis]

We've had it all, for forever!

[@deideideidei]

basically no real impact on low user apps like mine? sadge :((

[@aarondfrancis]

Do not be sadge! Rejoice that you're smart enough to not prematurely optimize. That puts you way ahead of your peers

[@deideideidei]

@@aarondfrancis agree! love your content. gonna wait for more!

[@CodingWithTaaxo]

is Laravel a thing in 2024?

[@aarondfrancis]

You have no idea how much of a thing it is in 2024

[@saeedvaziry]

But let's not forget that the real magic is being done by Swoole, RoadRunner and ...

[@aarondfrancis]

Of course

[@saeedvaziry]

@@aarondfrancis btw, great video 💪

[@LenWoodward]

first.

[@zoiobnu]

I code with python and C# and i'm here watching a video about Laravel, kkkkk

[@kennedymwenda3357]

Now you've made me not to learn Python FastAPI

[@Healvia]

6000 requests, very insane....

[@balodoc]

Nah, not for me. What makes Laravel great is it has a lot of first party package and that's the same reason that it makes the worst framework - it's just selfish, I like Symfony more

[@aarondfrancis]

I don't understand that logic at all but I'm happy you found something you like

[@balodoc]

@@aarondfrancis don’t worry about the logic, keep posting Laravel vids, that’s where the money is, that’s where market is, great job!

[@linuxgeex]

This series has way too much internal jargon. Thins are referred to using insider knowledge that new users will know nothing about. That's super unhelpful.

[@aarondfrancis]

This was the first video in the series. Thanks for the feedback

[@maskedvillainai]

Video intro…until that scribble. 🤢

[@aarondfrancis]

Hey that's my handwriting

[@rafaelhernand3z]

Miss the SQL content! I only followed Planetscale because of your great work! If you're not part of Planetscale I'll be Unsubscribing 😢

[@aarondfrancis]

I'll be doing SQL content here!