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Performance is a feature. When your Laravel application interacts with slow external APIs, making requests sequentially is a major performance killer. The total latency is the sum of all individual requests.
The solution is concurrent requests.
Laravel’s HTTP client provides two elegant solutions: the simple pool() method and the incredibly powerful batch() method with lifecycle callbacks.
In this article, I provide a clear guide with real-world use cases (like a dashboard aggregating data from multiple services) to show you how to implement this and stop leaving performance on the table.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by devTalk