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A backend engineer I worked alongside briefly had a phrase he used whenever someone suggested rewriting a working Laravel API in something trendier: “solve the problem you have, not the problem you want to have.” His team had built a backend serving twelve million API requests a day on Laravel without changing the framework. What they’d changed, repeatedly, was the architecture around it — caching layers, queue configurations, database query optimization, horizontal scaling setup. The framework hadn’t been the constraint. … Continue reading ” How a Mobile App Development Company Uses PHP and Laravel for Scalable App Backends”