Serverless Laravel applications with AWS Lambda and PlanetScale

In this article, the author creates a new Laravel application and deploys it to AWS Lambda using Bref, which simplifies configuring PHP on AWS Lambda. The author then connects to a PlanetScale MySQL database and performs load testing to demonstrate the benefits of serverless architecture, including instant autoscaling, redundant infrastructure, and pay-per-request billing. The article concludes with suggestions for further learning and improving performance, such as using Laravel Octane to keep the application in memory across requests and reuse SQL connections.