Using Laravel Octane + RoadRunner to Build a Supersonic Application Server

Developers need to adopt modern technologies that can handle increasing traffic and workloads, scalable and high performance applications continue to grow. Legacy process managers such as PHP-FPM have served us well over the years, but they have scalability and concurrency limits.

Laravel Octane combined with RoadRunner unlocks the potential of your application to improve performance and provide support for request-intensive environments.

This article explores how you can use Laravel Octane and RoadRunner to build a supersonic application server that can easily handle thousands of requests in a more efficient way.

Server Prerequisites

Laravel Octane requires PHP 8.1+.

For this setup, I used:

Windows 10 WSL
PHP 8.3
Laravel 12
RoadRunner
Apache 2.4
Laravel Octane 2.8
spiral/roadrunner-cli 2.6
spiral/roadrunner-http 3.3

What is Laravel Octane?

Laravel Octane is a first-party package that will increase the performance of your Laravel application by allowing requests to be served by using isolated worker processes. Octane keeps your application in memory, which reduces time to bootstrapping Laravel apps and allows for much faster response times, unlike traditional PHP process managers such as PHP-FPM that start a new instance for each request.

What is RoadRunner?

RoadRunner is an open source PHP application server and process manager written in Go that is designed to handle large numbers of requests simultaneously. Unlike traditional process managers such as PHP-FPM, which creates a new process for each HTTP request, RoadRunner keeps......