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Should I use Octane for an MLM application?
Profile first. Octane is rarely the first thing that needs fixing in an MLM application.
If you're seeing Laravel's bootstrap overhead under load, yes. For most MLM applications, the database queries plus comp-plan calculation dominate request time, not Laravel bootstrap. Profile first; reach for Octane only when bootstrap is in the top three slowdowns. Most MLM applications never reach that point because the genealogy queries and queue work eat the request time long before Laravel's startup costs matter. Octane adds operational complexity that's not free.