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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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Tideways 2026.1 Release

Tideways 2026.1 Release

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Tideways 2026.1 Release
Ten years of Tideways! Thank you for being part of the journey.
Tideways-News

Ten years of Tideways! Thank you for being part of the journey.
Dodge the thundering herd with file-based OPcache

Dodge the thundering herd with file-based OPcache

Tech

Dodge the thundering herd with file-based OPcache

In the last blog post about Fine-Tuning Opcache Configuration I mentioned the thundering herd problem that affects Opcache during cache restarts.
Tideways is on tour to PHPUK Conference

Tideways is on tour to PHPUK Conference

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Tideways is on tour to PHPUK Conference
Performance Benchmark Report second half of 2025 for Shopware 6

Performance Benchmark Report second half of 2025 for Shopware 6

Benchmarks | PHP Performance | Tech

Performance Benchmark Report second half of 2025 for Shopware 6
Our Ongoing Commitment to Open-Source

Our Ongoing Commitment to Open-Source

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Our Ongoing Commitment to Open-Source
We tried backslashing all the functions

We tried backslashing all the functions

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We tried backslashing all the functions
Thank you for 2025

Thank you for 2025

Tideways-News

Thank you for 2025
PHP 8.5 Garbage Collection Improvements

PHP 8.5 Garbage Collection Improvements

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PHP 8.5 Garbage Collection Improvements