Top 10 Companies that use Laravel in 2019
The Laravel framework is one of the best things that has happened in the PHP world and its popularity is growing rapidly.
However, there is still an urban myth that PHP as a whole is dead in 2019 when there are cooler languages and technologies around the block. Nothing could be further from the truth and at Donatix we are a huge fan of both PHP and Laravel. Most importantly, we are far from the only ones.
We have curated a list of top companies (according to us) that use PHP and Laravel in their web development efforts.
1. 9GAG
9GAG is an online platform and social media website. It allows users to upload and share funny content and memes. In an interview, its founder Ray Chan shared that the website receives more than 150 million visits per month! Such an impressive load should be handled by modern and scalable technology and infrastructure. The 9GAG engineering team uses PHP, Laravel and Vue.js along with many other tools according to their Stackshare.io page.
2. Pfizer
Pfizer is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical corporations. It ranked 57 In 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. If we go to their career page we would see that they are hiring PHP developers with explicit experience in Laravel: He would lead and deliver complex PHP, AWS and service-driven applications on Pfizer’s Cloud Development Platform. This stack powers many of Pfizer’s newest and most innovative custom web properties.
Although it is somewhat common for huge companies to use many technologies, usually they have been dominated by giants like Microsoft, Salesforce etc. There is a corporate saying: Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying Microsoft. Seeing PHP and Laravel used for such important projects in a blue-chip Fortune 100 company holds testament to its abilities.
3. BBC
BBC is the oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by a number of employees. Apart from traditional media channels, the BBC also works on multiple web applications across TV and Content Production. They use Angular JS & Angular 6 and PHP Laravel.
4. PedidosYa
PedidosYa is the leading food ordering and delivery service in South America. The platform connects 15,000 restaurants across the region with millions of users, operating in more than 400 cities. According to their profile in Stackshare they use PHP, Laravel and React.js in their web app and API.
5. About you
If you are thinking about Unicorn start-ups and Germany, About you should be on your list. This Hamburg-based company is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies in Europe and has a valuation of over USD 1 billion. About you digitilizes the shopping experience by offering more than 250,000 products from 1,200 brands on your smartphone.
PHP, Laravel, Lumen, Vue.js and React stand proudly on their technology stack page as the company boast about using state-of-the-art tech in front of prospective employees.
6. Ratio
Ratio is an innovative Fintech software company from the UK. They have several products aimed at helping people better manage their finances. For example, their website ChooseWisely.co.uk has helped more than 12 million users to find the right financial product: providing data on different credit cards, bank accounts, loans options. According to their site and Stackshare.io profile, the team uses primarily PHP, Laravel and React.js in their products.
7. TourRadar
TourRadar is an online marketplace for travellers to compare and book multi-day tours. Headquartered in Vienna, they list over 1 million tour departures and have integrated with over 2000 tour operators. The company is one of the hottest names in the travel-tech and it has attracted more than USD 66 million in funding(source: Crunchbase).
According to their site and tech blog, they use PHP (Symfony and Laravel as frameworks), Golang, Python and NodeJS/TypeScript lambda functions.
8. Exporo
Exporo is another success story from Hamburg. It offers investors an overview of real estate projects in which they can invest easily, transparently and free of charge. The idea started back in 2013 with the realization that real estate project developers are increasingly looking for alternative sources of finance apart from banks. Today the platform is the leader in digital real-estate investments in Europe, has helped more than 200 real estate projects through more than 20,000 clients and has raised more than €500 million brokered capital. To achieve such ambitious goals the team uses the entire AWS-stack along with PHP and Laravel to create scalable high-performance solutions and apps.
9. Crowdcube
Crowdcube is one of the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms. It helps private investors easily find and invest in promising Start-ups. They have more than 750,000 registered investors, and over 800 British businesses are funded through the platform.
The platform uses primarily PHP/Laravel/Nginx/MySQL coupled with React/TypeScript.
10. Delio
Delio is a fast-growing UK fintech that is disrupting the financial services industry with its digital infrastructure and tools for alternative investments. Their award-winning portfolio of technology platforms has been embraced by over 200 financial institutions including top-tier global banks.
The development stack sits within AWS, the technology runs across PHP on the Laravel framework, nodeJS, AngularJS and SQL / NoSQL databases.
That wraps it up. Have we missed any interesting companies on our list? We would be looking to update the list so tell us in the comments!
Originally published at https://donatix.net on September 16, 2019.
