Laravel.
My primary framework since 2017. Laravel is a batteries-included PHP framework with mature answers for routing, queues, authentication, and data — which means projects start fast and stay maintainable for years. It powers everything I build, from multi-tenant SaaS to AI-driven document workflows, and it's where I'm most productive: I know not just the framework, but its failure modes, performance limits, and upgrade paths.
Speed to market
Auth, ORM, queues, mail, and validation come built in. An MVP that would take months elsewhere ships in weeks — without cutting corners on quality or security.
A deep ecosystem
Livewire, Inertia, Horizon, Octane, Sanctum, Cashier — first-party packages for almost every business need, all maintained and documented by the core team.
Testability
Testing is a first-class citizen: database factories, HTTP fakes, queue fakes. Test-driven Laravel code is safe to change years after launch — that's what keeps maintenance cheap.
Scales with you
From a single server to queued workers, Redis caching, read replicas, and Octane performance — the same codebase grows as the business does, without a rewrite.
The default choice: the fastest path from idea to production platform, with room to grow into multi-tenancy, billing, and APIs.
Old PHP systems migrate naturally to Laravel — incrementally, route by route, without a risky big-bang rewrite.
Queues, jobs, and APIs make Laravel an ideal host for LLM workflows with validation, retries, and cost guardrails.
Yearly major releases with clear upgrade paths — a Laravel app maintained properly never becomes 'legacy'.
Laravel is the center of my architecture: it owns the domain logic, the database, authentication, and background work. Everything else — frontend frameworks, AI services, integrations — plugs into it through clean, tested boundaries.
Yes — modern PHP 8 is fast and typed, and Laravel is one of the most productive stacks in existence. A large share of the web runs on it, and its ecosystem is arguably the best-maintained in web development.
No. Laravel is one of the world's most popular frameworks — any Laravel developer can pick up my code, and the test suite documents how everything works.
Laravel serves platforms with millions of users. Long before framework limits matter, the real bottlenecks are query and architecture decisions — exactly the things I optimize from day one.
In my work
Nearly every project I've shipped since 2017 runs on Laravel — including the legacy rebuild that took one page from 3,982 database queries down to 52.