--- title: "LaraPlugins Perf Audit: 12 Fixes That Saved my server" url: https://daily.dev/posts/laraplugins-perf-audit-12-fixes-that-saved-my-server-hsyu1pijo source_url: https://danielpetrica.com/laraplugins-performance-audit type: article source: "Daniel Petrica" author: "Daniel, Petrica Andrei-Daniel" published: 2026-06-22T16:53:51.612Z updated: 2026-06-23T13:00:37.125Z tags: ["performance", "laravel", "mysql", "redis"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 4 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # LaraPlugins Perf Audit: 12 Fixes That Saved my server **[Daniel Petrica](https://daily.dev/sources/danielpetrica)** · [@danielpetrica](https://daily.dev/danielpetrica) · 8 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [LaraPlugins Security Advisories, Health Badges & Sync Fix](https://daily.dev/posts/laraplugins-security-advisories-health-badges-sync-fix-xdpagulgi) · Daniel Petrica · 12 upvotes · 2 comments --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel), [#mysql](https://daily.dev/tags/mysql), [#redis](https://daily.dev/tags/redis) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/laraplugins-perf-audit-12-fixes-that-saved-my-server-hsyu1pijo)