The slowdown has a specific cause
Your Laravel app got slower as it grew, and the answers on offer are bigger hardware or a rewrite. Neither is a diagnosis — I find the actual query, index, or cache miss first.
The usual response to a slow Laravel app is bigger hardware or a rewrite. Both are expensive, and neither is a diagnosis — they are what gets proposed when nobody has actually measured where the time goes.
I measure before I change anything. Query profiling to see what a page actually does, not what it is supposed to do. N+1s found and fixed one relation at a time. Indexes reviewed against the queries that are genuinely slow, not the ones that look slow. On one legacy rebuild that meant taking a single page from 3,982 database queries to 52 — a number that was found, not guessed, which is why the infrastructure bill fell with it too.
The engagement ends in a written report either way: what was slow, why, what changed, and what is still true afterwards — checkable, not asserted. If the honest finding is that the code is fine and the real cost is somewhere else, that is the report you get instead.
- →Profiling and a measured baseline before anything changes
- →Written findings report with a prioritised, costed fix list
- →N+1s, missing indexes, and cache misses fixed, not just flagged
Something holding you back?
New build, rebuild, or adding AI to what you already have — I'll take a look and give you an honest perspective.