5 articles
2026 overview of PHP execution engines: Zend + PHP-FPM, FrankenPHP, RoadRunner, Swoole/OpenSwoole, ReactPHP, AmPHP. Benchmarks, mental models, per-use-case recommendations.
Full production OPcache configuration, Symfony preloading, PHP 8 JIT, monitoring via opcache_get_status, deploy-time purge. Measured gains and pitfalls seen in audits.
Five stacked cache layers for a PHP application in production: OPcache, query cache, Redis, Varnish, CDN. Invalidation patterns, cache stampede, metrics and stack per company size.
Seven proven levers to drive a Symfony API's p95 latency below 200 ms: N+1 detection, serializer choice, HTTP cache, Redis, pagination, compression, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Real Symfony code.
A 2026 overview of the tools we use to measure PHP application performance: Blackfire, Tideways, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, k6, Gatling. Comparison tables, actual costs and methodology.