Building, testing and scaling Laravel APIs effectively.

The building, testing, and scaling of APIs in Laravel is not as simple as it seems. Should you use Laravel or Lumen? How should you authenticate the API? How should you test, deploy and scale your API? CI or not? Performance testing? This talk aims at answering all these questions. How and why to use Laravel and not Lumen, how to modify pieces of Laravel effectively for APIs, how to improve API performance and scale with increased traffic.

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1. Building, testing and scaling Laravel APIs effectively. Kati Frantz
2. @bahdcoder Udemy Instructor ‍ Software Engineer Mentor / Career strategist Ex Andelan Creator nesabox.com Kati Frantz
3. LARAVEL OR LUMEN ?
4. Lumen tradeoffs Developer experience - Lack of many artisan commands Auth features - No password resets / registration / login App features - Notifications / Broadcasts / Scheduling Community support - Packages / Resources / Tutorials
5. Use Laravel
6. REST OR GRAPHQL ?
7. Graphql vs Rest Network performance Complex systems / Microservices Learning curve Web caching / File uploads Laravel features
8. Use REST
9. Cleanup Laravel for APIs Remove all cookies / session related middleware Remove unused providers and aliases Cleanup unused routes Cleanup dead code / files
10. Authentication Default token guard JWT Authentication Laravel Passport
11. Testing TDD all the things More and more integration tests Unit tests for models and helpers Leverage laravel testing helpers (assertCreated, assertJson, assertJsonStructure, assertJsonFragment, postJson etc etc)
12. Deployment Don’t use shared hosting Use Laravel forge / Cloudways / Runcloud Use Amazon RDS / Aurora / Google Cloud SQL Use a CI / CD pipeline.
13. Performance and Monitoring Benchmark with Apache’s AB Analyse with blackfire.io Use papertrail Use Laravel’s inbuilt reporter
14. Scaling Use a load balancers with multiple servers Go serverless with Laravel Vapor Dockerise all the things
15. Thank you.