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Tideways 2026.2 Release

Tideways 2026.2 Release

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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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Tideways Windows Beta and PHP 7 Update

Tideways Windows Beta and PHP 7 Update

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Tideways Windows Beta and PHP 7 Update

zomg! Tideways for Windows is in Beta. We didn’t expect this to happen ourselves, so imagine our suprise when all tests just passed and that DLL fell out of the build process after just one day of tinkering.
Tideways and Xhprof on PHP 7: Beta Testers Wanted

Tideways and Xhprof on PHP 7: Beta Testers Wanted

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Tideways and Xhprof on PHP 7: Beta Testers Wanted

This Thursday the long awaited stable PHP 7 version will be released and its hard to hide our excitement about this important day in PHP history. For us the most important change is the performance increase and we have written about two- to threefold improvements accross different kinds of applications before.
Profiling SQL, MongoDB and more

Profiling SQL, MongoDB and more

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Profiling SQL, MongoDB and more

We are excited to announce a new version of Tideways PHP extension. The release is available to all our users since last Friday.
Profiling Overhead and PHP 7

Profiling Overhead and PHP 7

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Profiling Overhead and PHP 7

In this blog post we will discuss the overhead of Profilers and how their results are biased, which can ultimately affect optimization decisions of programmers. The following simple program will help us understand the problem:
High Performance Shopware 5.1 mit Elasticsearch

High Performance Shopware 5.1 mit Elasticsearch

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High Performance Shopware 5.1 mit Elasticsearch

Das kommende Shopware 5.1 Release enthält eine Unterstützung für die Suchdatenbank Elasticsearch, um die Produktsuche und Kategorieseiten zu beschleunigen. Elasticsearch ersetzt dabei MySQL nicht vollständig sondern arbeitet wie ein Cache für die Produktsuche.
High Performance Shopware 5.1 with Elasticsearch

High Performance Shopware 5.1 with Elasticsearch

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High Performance Shopware 5.1 with Elasticsearch

The upcoming Shopware 5.1 release ships with native Elasticsearch support, complementing the MySQL backend. This new Elasticsearch support does not replace MySQL as a primary storage, but works as a cache in front of the slow search and category listing database operations.
5 Ways to optimize Symfony Baseline Performance
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5 Ways to optimize Symfony Baseline Performance

We will continue our performance series with Symfony (previously on Doctrine ORM and PHP). This blog post describes some of the fundamental aspects that affect Symfony performance at the core of HttpKernel request lifecycle. These complement the Symfony Performance docs, which mentions general tips such as Bytecode Caching and Autoloader Optimizations.
Essential Macro Optimizations to Improve PHP Performance
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Essential Macro Optimizations to Improve PHP Performance

This blog post describes four macro-optimizations for PHP applications that are essential to consider before investigating other possible optimizations.
5 Doctrine ORM Performance Traps You Should Avoid
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5 Doctrine ORM Performance Traps You Should Avoid

Doctrine is a powerful Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) for PHP. It increases developer productivity and allows more secure access to your database.