PHP Performance with Marco Pivetta (ocramius)

11/12/19 • 29 min

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew, talk with Marco Pivetta (ocramius) about:

PHP 7.4's new preloading feature: what it is, how it works, the benefits and drawbacks of using it
The speed differences between different versions of PHP (especially in 7.x)
The difference between OPcache and Preloading
How Composer's autoloader may soon be a thing of the past

Notable Quotes

Composer is the mother of all frameworks.The (Composer) autoloader will gradually disappear.You wouldn't build a house and not check it for 10 years. It should be the same for software projects.Everything (in software development) is a trade-off.

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Guests: Marco Pivetta.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei, and Matthew Setter.

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In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew, talk with Marco Pivetta (ocramius) about:

PHP 7.4's new preloading feature: what it is, how it works, the benefits and drawbacks of using it
The speed differences between different versions of PHP (especially in 7.x)
The difference between OPcache and Preloading
How Composer's autoloader may soon be a thing of the past

Notable Quotes

Links

Guests: Marco Pivetta.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei, and Matthew Setter.

Previous Episode

Talking Garbage Collection with Derick Rethans

Thanks to PHP being an interpreted language and it that it has a garbage collector, PHP developers don't often have to think about memory management. Unlike developers in compiled languages, such as C/C++, we don't have to give that much thought to memory allocation and deallocation.

However, it's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications.

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew, talk with Derick Rethans about:

The basics of how garbage collection works in PHP
About how Xdebug and garbage collection in PHP came about
About some of the functions available for interacting with it
How to get the most out of garbage collection

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Guests: Derick Rethans.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei, and Matthew Setter.

Next Episode

How to Run PHP Applications on Multiple Servers

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Robert Douglass and Larry Garfield from Platform.sh about running PHP applications on multiple servers. Robert and Larry share a load of excellent advice, including:

Why you need to use Load Balancers (along with what they are and some of the key options)

How PHP is exceptionally well suited to being deployed across multiple servers out of the box

How you can start deploying your PHP apps on multiple servers today

How to properly share files, data, cache, and sessions

Why sticky sessions are, often, a bad idea

How to handle workers and Cron jobs

Plus loads load more!

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Guests: Robert Douglass and Larry Garfield.

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email [email protected].