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Discussion on: A comparison between Laravel and Phalcon

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Fakhar Anwar

FYI. Laravel architecture is monolithic, resource-hungry and does not scale well, while Phalcon has a reasonably good documentation and can be fused with Swoole PHP (Asynchrnous PHP Extension that allows its own HTTP server). If you like you can use parts of Laravel with Phalcon (if you are easy with Laravel, and want speed in some parts)

Selling Laravel only because it has more documentation material is not wisdom that one should expect from Software Engineers. As a software engineer you should rate a technology better based on its Engine and Non-functional Quality Attributes (Good Documentation is important but not the first and only thing to look at).

Laravel Eloquent implements Active Record pattern which makes data access slow for larger applications.