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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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Meet Volker at the International PHP Conference 2026 in Berlin

Meet Volker at the International PHP Conference 2026 in Berlin

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Meet Volker at the International PHP Conference 2026 in Berlin
Tideways at PHPDay Verona: Gold Sponsor & Talk on “Shipping PHP 8.5”

Tideways at PHPDay Verona: Gold Sponsor & Talk on “Shipping PHP 8.5”

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Tideways at PHPDay Verona: Gold Sponsor & Talk on “Shipping PHP 8.5”
Benjamin giving an intro to Tideways at Sylius Hackathon and Meetup

Benjamin giving an intro to Tideways at Sylius Hackathon and Meetup

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Benjamin giving an intro to Tideways at Sylius Hackathon and Meetup
Benjamin on Lazy Objects at SymfonyLive Berlin

Benjamin on Lazy Objects at SymfonyLive Berlin

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Benjamin on Lazy Objects at SymfonyLive Berlin
Celebrating a decade of Tideways

Celebrating a decade of Tideways

Tideways-News

Celebrating a decade of Tideways
Tideways has won the German Customer Award 2025!

Tideways has won the German Customer Award 2025!

Tideways-News

Tideways has won the German Customer Award 2025!
Tideways at the Manychat PHP Meetup in Barcelona

Tideways at the Manychat PHP Meetup in Barcelona

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Tideways at the Manychat PHP Meetup in Barcelona
Fine-Tune Your OPcache Configuration to Avoid Caching Surprises

Fine-Tune Your OPcache Configuration to Avoid Caching Surprises

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Fine-Tune Your OPcache Configuration to Avoid Caching Surprises

Since PHP 5.5 the Opcache extension is part of the core and adds support for byte-code caching of PHP scripts. For a dynamic language such as PHP, a byte-code cache can increase the performance significantly, because it guarantees a script is compiled only once.
We’re sponsoring the Shopware Community UnConference 2026

We’re sponsoring the Shopware Community UnConference 2026

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We’re sponsoring the Shopware Community UnConference 2026