Octane runs a Laravel application inside a persistent worker — FrankenPHP, RoadRunner, or Swoole — so the framework boots once instead of every request.
Typical request latency drops 50–80% because the service container is already warm. Watch out for state that leaks between requests: singleton-bound stateful services are the classic foot-gun.
Octane ships flush helpers and a tick and interval API for periodic work that should not require a separate scheduler.