Here’s Why FrankenPHP Worker Mode Saves Your Sanity

Here’s Why FrankenPHP Worker Mode Saves Your Sanity
A lot of developers spend little to no time thinking about how our code gets from being code to something that can be interacted with by the consumers of our code. There are several large components that we can affect to improve the performance of this interaction. One of them that doesn’t get much discussion is how altering the HTTP server can make a huge difference in performance.
Traditionally, in the PHP space, we usually default to Apache or nginx, but recently, the FrankenPHP project has been released, which makes it much easier to deploy our code and potentially much faster.
In this article, we’ll explore why the traditional PHP request lifecycle creates performance bottlenecks, how FrankenPHP’s worker mode eliminates that overhead, and how to migrate an existing Laravel application to FrankenPHP.
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