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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 […]
Tideways 2026.3 Release

Tideways 2026.3 Release

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Tideways 2026.3 Release

This Release introduces AI Performance Insights, expanding the Tideways CLI with access to monitoring, exception tracking, Slow SQL, and trace data for agentic performance analysis. We added PHP 8.6 compatibility and improved trace views and instrumentation. We’ve also added a broad range of new framework- and ORM-specific bottleneck detections for Shopware, Magento, Laravel, Symfony, and […]

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Reliable Integration with Third-Party APIs in PHP

Reliable Integration with Third-Party APIs in PHP

PHP Performance | Tech

Reliable Integration with Third-Party APIs in PHP

It’s a fact of modern software development that aspects of our applications interact with third-party APIs. This could be for any number of reasons, with some common ones being payment processing, telecommunications, logging, and data analysis.
PHP Timeouts, Retries and Limits

PHP Timeouts, Retries and Limits

PHP Performance | Tech

PHP Timeouts, Retries and Limits

We have blogged about timeouts, retries and limits before in these three blog posts:
THANK YOU FOR 2019

THANK YOU FOR 2019

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THANK YOU FOR 2019

A heartfelt “thank you” to you, dear customers, partners and friends! You made 2019 a very special year for us with lots of great talks, cooperations and especially ideas and inspirations.
Four Key Considerations When Running PHP Applications On Multiple Servers

Four Key Considerations When Running PHP Applications On Multiple Servers

PHP Performance | Tech

Four Key Considerations When Running PHP Applications On Multiple Servers

Building and deploying PHP applications on one server is a, relatively, straightforward process. However, what about deploying a PHP application across multiple servers? In this article, I’m going to discuss four key considerations to bear in mind when deploying PHP applications when doing so.
5 Ways to Increase PHP Performance

5 Ways to Increase PHP Performance

PHP Performance | Tech

5 Ways to Increase PHP Performance

Out of the proverbial, box, PHP provides decent performance. However, there are several things that we, as PHP developers and systems administrators, can do to increase its performance even further; sometimes for almost no effort.
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.