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I still remember the day our team discovered that our Laravel application's database connection pool was maxed out. We had scaled to 10M requests/day, and our default approach to database interactions was failing us. That's when we dove deep into Laravel's Eloquent ORM, and what we learned changed everything.
The Problem with Default Eloquent Usage
When I first started using Eloquent, I thought it was just a simple ORM that allowed me to interact with my database using PHP objects. But as our application grew, I realized that the default usage patterns were not optimized for high-scale applications. For example, the N+1 query problem was killing our performance.
Solving the N+1 Query Problem
To solve the N+1 query problem, we started using Eloquent's eager loading feature. We loaded related models in a single query, reducing the number of database queries significantly.
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