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High Performance with Laravel Octane

You're reading from   High Performance with Laravel Octane Learn to fine-tune and optimize PHP and Laravel apps using Octane and an asynchronous approach

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801819404
Length 204 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Architecture
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Laravel Web Application Architecture FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2: The Application Server
4. Chapter 2: Configuring the RoadRunner Application Server 5. Chapter 3: Configuring the Swoole Application Server 6. Part 3: Laravel Octane – a Complete Tour
7. Chapter 4: Building a Laravel Octane Application 8. Chapter 5: Reducing Latency and Managing Data with an Asynchronous Approach 9. Part 4: Speeding Up
10. Chapter 6: Using Queues to Apply the Asynchronous Approach in Your Application 11. Chapter 7: Configuring the Laravel Octane Application for the Production Environment 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making parallel HTTP requests

Think about the scenario in which you have to add a new web page in your application, and to render the web page, you have to call more than one API because you need multiple pieces of data from multiple sources (list of products, list of news, list of links, etc.) for the same page. In the scenario with one web page that needs data from multiple API calls, you could perform the HTTP requests simultaneously to reduce the response time of the page.

For this example, to simplify the explanation, we will avoid using the controller and the view. We are going to collect JSON responses from APIs and then we will merge the responses into one JSON response. The important aspect to focus on is the mechanism of calling HTTP requests to third-party HTTP services because our goal is to understand how to make the HTTPS call concurrently.

To simulate the HTTP service, we are going to create two new routes:

  • api/sentence: An API endpoint that replies with...
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