Welcome to the course! In this introduction, we talk about how Laravel already takes care of a lot of performance stuff for you, right out of the box. But as you’re building your applications, there are some important things every Laravel developer should know to keep things running fast and smooth.

We’ll give you an overview of the fundamentals we’ll cover—like easy ways to monitor your app’s performance, using eager loading, making your database queries quicker by selecting only the columns you need, adding indexes, and plenty more techniques that really make a difference.

For hands-on learners, there’s an example project included with the course downloads, and in the next episode we’ll walk through setting that up. Or if you’d rather just watch and learn, you can skip ahead to episode three. Let’s get started!