Can Laravel be used in a microservices architecture?

Yes, and we recommend it where it earns its place. Most enterprise Laravel applications start as a modular monolith (clean module boundaries, separate read and write models for complex domains) and migrate specific bounded contexts to standalone services when scale, deployment frequency, or team independence demands it. We use Laravel for individual services with REST or GraphQL APIs, Redis or RabbitMQ for queues, and gateway pattern through Laravel Octane for high throughput public surfaces. Strangler fig migration is the standard pattern for moving from a legacy monolith to microservices.