LaraPlugins Perf Audit: 12 Fixes That Saved my server
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A real-world performance audit of LaraPlugins.io, a Laravel app indexing 76,000+ packages on an 8 GB VPS running at 90%+ memory. The author walks through 12 concrete fixes including splitting a monolithic Horizon supervisor into dedicated queues, capping worker memory with maxJobs limits, collapsing 50,000 individual Cloudflare cache purge jobs into a single self-rescheduling batched job using Redis SADD, adding missing MySQL indexes, excluding a large JSON column from default queries via a global scope, tuning cache TTLs, and configuring GitHub API rate-limit backoff. The result: memory dropped to a stable 65–80%, New Relic alerts went quiet, and average response times stayed under 100ms.
