Disable HTTP sessions in Laravel to speed up your API

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My buddy Mattias recently improved the performance of the Oh Dear uptime checker servers by disabling the HTTP sessions.

If you run a Laravel application purely as a headless API, you can benefit from disabling the HTTP sessions. We use this setup for our Oh Dear monitoring service, where the remote servers that check for uptime are all headless Laravel setups.

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