
High Performance Computing
Jan 18, 20262 min read
The 2026 Benchmark: How Laravel Octane & PHP 8.5 Crushed Our Node.js Services
We were preparing to rewrite a critical high-traffic microservice in Go or Node.js. Just for kicks, we tried running the existing PHP code on Laravel Octane first. The results shocked us so much we cancelled the rewrite.
Bhagwati InfotechEngineering Team