Technical requirements

In order to run the code and tools shown in this book, you must have the PHP engine installed on your machine. It is recommended that you have a recent version of PHP installed (at least 8.0, released in November 2020).

Also, in order to easily install additional tools, it is recommended that you have Homebrew installed if you use macOS. In the case of GNU/Linux systems, it will be sufficient to resort to using the package manager of the distribution used, and in the case of Windows systems, the advice is to have a virtual environment, for example, with Docker.

In the current chapter, some commands and source code will be shown, simply to share some concepts. In subsequent chapters, especially the second chapter about RoadRunner and the third chapter about Open Swoole, the installation of each package and tool will be addressed step by step.

There are those who, regardless of their operating system, prefer to maintain a “clean” installation by resorting to using Docker regardless of the host operating system. Where the next chapters deal with the installation of operating system-dependent tools, the different methods will be highlighted depending on the system in use.

The source code and the configuration files of the examples described in the current chapter are available here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/High-Performance-with-Laravel-Octane/tree/main/octane-ch01