6 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.
Running Elasticsearch in production with Symfony: PHP clients, explicit mapping, Messenger-based indexing, aggregations, relevance tuning, zero-downtime reindex. 2026 landscape against OpenSearch, Meilisearch and Typesense.
Three architecture tiers for PHP on AWS: MVP at 100 EUR/month, Growth at 500 EUR/month, Scale at several thousand. Concrete services (ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront), production-ready PHP-FPM Dockerfile, Terraform module, cost traps and observability.
A full method to take over a legacy PHP codebase without breaking it: functional, technical, risk, debt and human mapping. Concrete tools (PHPStan, Deptrac, Rector), a decision matrix and a 5-step exit plan.
A five-phase methodology to migrate a PHP 5.6 monolith to 8.3 with no big bang, using Rector, PHPStan, Deptrac and Behat. Field report from a 14-month project, zero incidents.