An Empirical Study of Performance in Laravel Applications
As part of my Software Verification and Testing class at Concordia University, my team and I chose to study empirically the performance of some popular Laravel applications. The goal was to replicate the paper “How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild” by Junwen Yang et al. This paper, focused on the Ruby ecosystem, found that ORM API misuses such as inefficient queries, lack of pagination, inefficient eager loading or lazy loading were common causes for performance degradation....