Hi, we are Tideways 👋 and we help you gain performance insights.

Our mission is to provide developers and operators with tools that they enjoy using and that are tailored to boost efficiency.

The story of Tideways:

Benjamin, our CEO, successfully turned his PHP roots into wings for his own company.

To support all fellow PHP enthusiasts and everyone looking to improve the performance of their website, he founded the Profiling, Monitoring and Exception Tracking Tool Tideways. A nightmare for all bugs and a dream come true for developers! Since then, Tideways has grown and evolved.

Here’s why Benjamin saw the urgent need for a software like Tideways as well as our corporate philosophy, from the founder’s perspective:

Before Tideways, I performed many load tests for e-commerce customers to prepare for Black Friday and other peak load times. It was very unsatisfactory for me to only see that a shop couldn’t handle the load, without knowing why. My idea for a profiling tool that could remove the cloud of uncertainty was born at that moment.

The initial version of the Profiler was based on the open-source XHProf Profiler that Facebook released for PHP in 2009. From that moment forward, the Tideways Profiler began to take shape. It always fascinated me to understand the causes for slow loading times, and implementing fixes for those bottlenecks based on these insights in the least amount of time.

I created Tideways for PHP and it seamlessly integrates with popular online shop software like Shopware and Magento, as well as various libraries and frameworks like Symfony or Laravel.

Benjamin

We are grateful for our sturdy roots, and we’re happy to give back to the open-source community we were raised in. Many of our team members contributed and continue to contribute to open-source projects such as Doctrine, Symfony, and PHP. Furthermore, Tideways is a significant sponsor of the PHP Foundation and we regularly sponsor community events.

With our customers and in our small and close-knit team, we adhere to a mission statement we find suitable for us. We value honest and fair communication, the will to act solution-oriented and aim for continuous improvement. Our goal is to provide our customers with a product that they can count on today and in the future.