Laravel.

Where Laravel fits on a long engagement.

Laravel is productive because almost everything is included and conventional. Queues, scheduled jobs, authentication, migrations and testing arrive configured, so a team builds product rather than assembling infrastructure — and a new specialist can navigate a conventional application immediately.

The same conventions permit the same drift as any batteries-included framework. Fat models, business logic in controllers, and Eloquent relationships producing N+1 queries under load are the standard ways a Laravel application becomes difficult, and none of them are the framework's fault.

What an assigned team does with Laravel.

Eloquent is the specific thing to watch. It is pleasant to write and generates more queries than people expect, and a page that was fast against test data issues hundreds of queries against production volumes.

Watching query counts rather than page timings is what catches that, and it is the kind of standard held within an agreed committed monthly capacity.

What we use Laravel for.

• Building product rather than infrastructure Queues, auth and scheduling included, so the team works on the domain.
• N+1 caught before production Query counts monitored, because Eloquent generates them readily.
• Conventional structure a new specialist can read Layout that explains itself before any code is read.

How Laravel capacity is assigned.

Laravel capacity is assigned inside backend development, with query-count monitoring treated as part of the definition of done.