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Tideways 2026.2 Release

Tideways 2026.2 Release

Product | Tideways-News

Tideways 2026.2 Release

Understanding complex request traces is one of the hardest parts of performance analysis. In this Release, we focused on making this significantly easier in Tideways. The Timeline has been redesigned to provide a clearer view of how requests are executed, with new layout modes, improved navigation, and a more consistent span model. These changes help […]
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Ten years of Tideways! Thank you for being part of the journey.

10 years ago, Benjamin founded Tideways with a clear goal: support PHP developers and help build faster, more reliable websites. Since then, more than 2,000 customers have used Tideways to gain better visibility into their PHP applications. Seeing that web applications are slow without understanding why sparked an idea for Benjamin, that ultimately led to […]

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New Feature: Multiple Production Environments in Pro License

New Feature: Multiple Production Environments in Pro License

PHP Performance | Product | Tech

New Feature: Multiple Production Environments in Pro License

All Tideways applications with a Pro license can now create additional production Environments in addition to the one that is available by default.
What Is Garbage Collection in PHP And How Do You Make The Most Of It?

What Is Garbage Collection in PHP And How Do You Make The Most Of It?

PHP Performance | Tech

What Is Garbage Collection in PHP And How Do You Make The Most Of It?

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.
The Undercover ElePHPant Podcast

The Undercover ElePHPant Podcast

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The Undercover ElePHPant Podcast

For a while we have considered on how to relaunch our efforts to bring you the best content on PHP performance, scaling and optimizations.
Improving Magento 2 Performance

Improving Magento 2 Performance

PHP Performance | Tech

Improving Magento 2 Performance

This summer we worked together with David on the performance of a Magento 2 project and found some general improvements that the whole Magento community will benefit from.
A New and Improved Application History

A New and Improved Application History

Product | Tech

A New and Improved Application History

Tideways history functionality is still mostly based on the features available 4 years ago, before we introduced Services and Environments, Downstream Layers and many others.
Use Tideways for applications of all sizes with the new Flex plan

Use Tideways for applications of all sizes with the new Flex plan

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Use Tideways for applications of all sizes with the new Flex plan

The PHP community is large and diverse in their approach to build and run PHP applications. We have seen hundreds of small applications running on a handful of servers and one product running on multiple clusters and hundreds of servers across the globe. Still, we believe all PHP applications regardless of size benefit from monitoring, profiling and exception tracking functionality.
Trigger Trace 2.0 Preview: What's New

Trigger Trace 2.0 Preview: What’s New

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Trigger Trace 2.0 Preview: What’s New

Last year we asked all our customers what they think we should work on and “Triggering Traces” came out on top. We started planning a prototype in Winter last year and are ready to share the current state and a few ideas ideas as we launch the beta program. The general release date is planned for late February/March.
Tideways sponsoring Unconference 2019 at the 10th PHP Benelux

Tideways sponsoring Unconference 2019 at the 10th PHP Benelux

Event | Tideways-News

Tideways sponsoring Unconference 2019 at the 10th PHP Benelux

Only a few days to go and one of our favorite PHP conferences is opening its doors – the PHP Benelux. And it is the anniversary edition – 10 years PHP Benelux – can you believe it?
Adding Spryker Commerce Support

Adding Spryker Commerce Support

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Adding Spryker Commerce Support

We are happy to announce that our latest version of the Tideways extension (v5.0.22) includes support for the Spryker E-Commerce Platform through fully automated instrumentation and hooks into the core of Spryker.