Laravel FTW.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We collect, aggregate, and distribute vehicle data for the vast majority of US auto dealerships. I have developed an ETL/Reverse ETL application entirely in Laravel that receives, processes, and distributes data files in a variety of formats. We exchange upwards of 2 million records a day. Laravel has made this process a dream.
Pros
- Top notch documentation, and training resources (Laracast).
- Excellent and active developer community.
- Amazing database abstraction layer.
- Fantastic Ecosystem of supporting products, Forge, Vapor, Nova, etc.
Cons
- Performance at massive scale could use addressing.
- There are some overhead issues (N+1 query, etc.) that require careful optimization to avoid.
- The framework is constantly being updated, requiring our team to dedicate significant resources to keeping our code current.
Return on Investment
- Laravel saves our clients significant time and costs as it radically reduces development time and complexity for data-driven web applications.
- "The integration of Laravel Forge, AWS EC2, and GitHub CI/CD creates a seamless infrastructure workflow that significantly reduces engineering overhead and operational costs.
- The Framework is open source which saves licensing fees.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Symfony, Django and Express.js


