Laravel is a development framework which has rejuvenated PHP as a server-side language. It has gained massive popularity, and for good reason. It is a highly readable framework, which can be utilized in a modularized fashion in Composer packages. It is also easy to create a RESTful service in PHP with the Restful Resources.

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You also have the option to use Redis Cache, which is different from Memcached in the sense that it has persistence. Further advantages of Redis over Memcached are that it works with more data types, and it uses less memory.

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