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Laravel with Docker Compose: 10 Infrastructure Mistakes, Benchmarked (2026)
We built the same Laravel 13 app twice on 26 October 2026. The naive image was 1,938 MB with the .env file inside it; the hardened one was 203 MB. Turning OPcache off cut throughput from 540 to 102 requests per second. Here are the 10 Compose mistakes and the fix for each.
Palaniappan P