Compressing HTTP responses can significantly improve the performance of your PHP and Symfony applications. But you must still navigate the jungle of standards and formats. In this presentation, we’ll discover how HTTP compression works, the different formats supported by modern web browsers (deflate, gzip, Brotli, and the brand-new Zstandard), and how to use them correctly….
FrankenPHP 1.3: Massive Performance Improvements, Watcher Mode, Dedicated Prometheus Metrics, and More
I’m thrilled to announce the immediate availability of FrankenPHP 1.3, just in time for SyliusCon, where I’ll be presenting this new version this afternoon. First of all, I’d like to thank all the contributors, and in particular Alexander Stecher and Rob Landers, the other two project maintainers, who have done a titanic job. An incredible…
How to debug Xdebug… or any other weird bug in PHP
What to do when the debugger has a bug? That’s the question I had to answer when my GitHub notifications went haywire because a new version of Xdebug was crashing FrankenPHP and therefore all the projects that use it. Together, we’ll retrace the epic story of this debugging debugger and discover a method that can…