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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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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.
Launching Tideways with transparent and flexible pricing

Launching Tideways with transparent and flexible pricing

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Launching Tideways with transparent and flexible pricing

We are excited to launch the first version of Tideways to the general public this week along with a new pricing model.
Three Fully Functional Demo Applications

Three Fully Functional Demo Applications

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Three Fully Functional Demo Applications

Tideways stands for smart and efficient profiling. To offer first-time-users an easy access, we incorporated a lot of feedback to simplify the installation.