Laravel Benchmark with Locust

In this post, I’m comparing Laravel 6, 7 and 8 with PHP 7.2 and PHP 7.4. Why not include PHP 8? PHP 8 still new and its just slightly faster (not much) than 7.4. This benchmark test is tested against my existing live application.

Note that, this load test is based on 4 Core 8 GB Ram and dockerized in serverless Alibaba Cloud. Result will based on single replica only.

Before that I would like to share the configuration used,

Server specification

• Dockerized — 4C 8G each
• Database RDS Mysql — 16C 32G
• Redis Server — 8C 16G

Docker

For Laravel 6, I using 2 different docker to test PHP 7.2 and PHP 7.4

FROM webdevops/php-nginx:7.2
FROM webdevops/php-nginx:7.4

For Laravel 7 & 8, only docker PHP 7.4

FROM webdevops/php-nginx:7.4

You can refer here — https://github.com/webdevops.

Nginx Configuration

nginx.conf

....
worker_connections          4096;
... 
proxy_connect_timeout       300;
proxy_send_timeout          300;
proxy_read_timeout          300;
send_timeout                300;
proxy_buffering             off;
....