How I Built a Real-Time Precious Metals Price Feed for 30,000 Concurrent Users in Laravel
The article discusses the development of a real-time precious metals price feed capable of handling 30,000 concurrent users using Laravel. It highlights the architectural choices made, including the use of Laravel Reverb for WebSocket broadcasting and Redis for caching. The implementation focuses on minimizing database reads and optimizing message broadcasting to ensure efficient performance.
- ▪The system pushes live updates of gold and silver prices to users with sub-second latency.
- ▪Laravel Reverb serves as the self-hosted WebSocket server, allowing for efficient handling of multiple connections.
- ▪Redis is utilized for caching price data, significantly reducing the load on the database.
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