Part 2: Golang vs. PHP/Laravel in High-Concurrency E-Commerce: Architectural Trade-Offs, 50k RPS Benchmarks, and Zero-Downtime Strangler-Fig Blueprint
← Previous Chapter: Part 1 — HTTP/REST vs. gRPC | Series hub | Next Chapter: Part 3 — Primary Key Showdown: UUIDv7 vs. Snowflake vs. BIGINT → Answer-first: For transactional hotspots (>=5,000 RPS flash-sale checkout, inventory locks), Golang is mandatory, delivering 86.3% lower AWS compute costs ($189,411.48/yr savings at 50,000 RPS) with sub-5ms P99 latency. For backoffice CRM, catalog, and ERP workflows, Laravel 11 with Filament remains vastly superior, making the Strangler-Fig Hybrid Architecture the optimal enterprise design. ...