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This is the story of the manufacturing of seven-league boots for a function that is responsible for processing XML/HTML data in the PHP library. Optimizations in the PHP standard library, like here in ext/dom, have the potential to speed up the performance of applications significantly by an upgrade to the current PHP version.

You can now unpack the Christmas present that was promised to you at the end of 2023! As you may have already read in the Flamegraph Feature Preview, this exciting new feature of the Profiler is now the focus of our first release in 2024. The Flamegraph complements the Timeline and Callgraph features and visualizes Aggregated Traces. The goal was to provide profiling information across many traces and thereby gaining new and deeper insights into performance.

In the realm of web development, PHP has long been a stalwart language, powering a significant portion of the internet's infrastructure. However, as the demands placed on web applications have evolved, traditional PHP setups have sometimes struggled to keep pace with performance requirements. This is where Swoole comes into play.

PHP, the server-side scripting language, serves as the backbone for a vast array of websites and web applications across the internet. Renowned for its versatility and user-friendliness, PHP empowers developers to create web solutions that cater to their specific needs. Yet, PHP's true potential doesn't solely reside in its coding syntax; it also hinges on the capacity to adjust its behavior to suit diverse applications. The gateway to this level of customization lies in PHP configuration settings.

You might have heard the rumors circulating in the tech world—PHP, the venerable programming language, isn’t as secure as its modern counterparts. With roots tracing back nearly three decades, PHP soared to popularity during the early days of the web, when security practices were still finding their footing.

As a founding member and major contributor to the success of the PHP Foundation, Tideways sponsored the Foundation with 12,000 USD in 2023. As a member of the administrative board of the PHP Foundation, the advancement of the open source language PHP is key for us. In the founding year, we supported the Foundation with 10,000 USD and followed this up in 2022 with another 15,000 USD. As a major sponsor, it is our declared goal to uphold our commitment to PHP and the foundation.

As a Christmas present, we have started rolling out a new feature for the Profiler: flamegraph rendering in addition to the existing Timeline and Callgraph. This is a feature preview and will see more changes in Q1 of 2024. For now, only customers with the most recent plans (Tideways 6) can access them, or you can view them in traces of the „demo“ organization. Let us know what you think of it!

Since our last release announcement in April we have been working on a number of new features for Tideways that we are now happy to share with you. This is the second and final release for 2023. From here the team will be looking ahead to 2024, the 10th anniversary of Tideways’ launch, and preparing some amazing new features and improvements.