Engineering
Why We Chose Vanilla PHP Over a Framework
A pragmatic take on framework fatigue.
Ravi Kandaswamy
· 7 min read
We ship a lot of code per week and we answer to one metric: time-from-idea to production. That metric pushed us toward vanilla PHP plus a small set of focused services.
The trade-off isn't universal — if you're building a generic CRUD app with a hundred contributors, reach for Laravel. For a tight, opinionated product, vanilla can win.