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What are compiler optimized internal PHP functions and should you import them via use statement?

Aug 14, 2025 By Benjamin In Tideways
Every once in a while when browsing through open-source code, you will probably have come across internal functions that are either imported implicitly with use function array_map; like here in Doctrine or prefixed with the global namespace separator, for example \is_string($foo) like in Symfony. Curious beings as we are, you might wonder as did I: Why are they doing this? Do function calls not automatically fall back into the global namespace?
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Autoloading Performance - Avoid These 5 Mistakes!

Aug 12, 2025 By Benjamin In Tideways
Autoloading performance affects every PHP application. And no, it’s not a solved problem just because Composer handles autoloading for you nowadays. In fact, for large applications like Magento, Shopware, or those based on Symfony or Laravel, autoloading can turn into a major performance bottleneck. More than 100 ms per request is not uncommon, caused by one of these common mistakes: Let’s break it down.
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Flexible PHP Support | Zend Professional Services

Aug 11, 2025 By Perforce In Perforce
Is your team looking for expert PHP help for your enterprise applications? If so, you’re not alone, and Zend is here to assist you through flexible PHP service hours. Join Anna Filina, Principal Professional Services Engineer, as she shares how Zend Black Belt PHP Support can be used to maintain, modernize, and secure your mission-critical applications. From updating legacy PHP to building automated testing suites, our flexible PHP support is here to help. Learn more via the links below.
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Should You Use OPcache Preloading in Your PHP App?

Jul 16, 2025 By Benjamin In Tideways
Thinking about enabling OPcache Preloading to squeeze more performance out of your PHP application? It’s an advanced feature with very specific benefits — and in most cases, you likely won’t notice a difference. In this post, we’ll explain what OPcache Preloading is, how to set it up, and when (or if) it makes a measurable impact.
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A Multi-Step Strategy for better Full Page Caching

May 26, 2025 By Benjamin In Tideways
A full page cache is a powerful performance optimization for web-applications with numerous visitors. Instead of performing all the PHP and database work to render the same page over and over again, you cache the resulting HTML once and serve that time and again for a period. But there is room for even more improvement, especially in e-commerce applications that use full page caching.
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Tideways 2025.2 Release

May 21, 2025 By Diana In Tideways
In our second Release in 2025, we’re introducing additional performance insights to help you identify and resolve even more Bottlenecks faster and more effectively. Detailed information is now integrated in our Weekly Report, namely the number and types of the observations discovered in your application. We’re eager to make it easier than ever to stay on top of optimizations.
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PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2

May 14, 2025 By Benjamin In Tideways
Every year, like clockwork, a new version of PHP is released at the end of November. Naturally, you want to know, how much performance gain is in this new release across common frameworks and applications? Our tests show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application. Upgrading to the latest PHP version is not a magic pill to improve performance.
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Combining regular expressions with named capture groups to improve performance

Apr 30, 2025 By Benjamin In Tideways
Regular expressions are usually not top of mind when you think of performance bottlenecks in your application, but inefficient patterns or sub-optimal use of the APIs can make them slow. A wonderful learning opportunity for this is a recent roughly factor of 2x performance improvement patch to Doctrine DBAL’s SQL Parser. This patch was submitted by Soner from Shopware fame, thank you to him.
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Performance Benchmark Report Q1 2025 for Shopware 6

Apr 15, 2025 By Benjamin In Tideways
How does your Shopware 6 store’s PHP backend performance compare to other operators of Shopware in general? To answer this question, we have aggregated and anonymized performance data from over 150 Shopware 6 stores over the last quarter and computed benchmark numbers to compare to for the most important page types: Product details, Category, Search, and Homepage.
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