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Tideways 2026.2 Release

Tideways 2026.2 Release

Product | Tideways-News

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 2025.2 Release

Tideways 2025.2 Release

Product | Tideways-News

Tideways 2025.2 Release
PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2

PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2

Benchmarks | Tech | Video

PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2
Combining regular expressions with named capture groups to improve performance

Combining regular expressions with named capture groups to improve performance

PHP Performance | Tech | Video

Combining regular expressions with named capture groups to improve performance
Lazy Loading Data Objects in PHP 8.4 with Doctrine ORM Example

Lazy Loading Data Objects in PHP 8.4 with Doctrine ORM Example

PHP Performance | Tech | Video

Lazy Loading Data Objects in PHP 8.4 with Doctrine ORM Example
What is the best value for max_execution_time in PHP?

What is the best value for max_execution_time in PHP?

PHP Performance | Tech | Video

What is the best value for max_execution_time in PHP?

By default PHPs maximum execution time is set to 30 seconds of CPU time (time spent in streams and system calls are excluded from this). Since your webserver has a maximum limit of requests it can handle in parallel, this leads to an interesting question for performance and webserver throughput:
Performance Benchmark Report Q1 2025 for Shopware 6

Performance Benchmark Report Q1 2025 for Shopware 6

Benchmarks | Tech

Performance Benchmark Report Q1 2025 for Shopware 6
Meet us at Shopware Community UnConference in Cologne

Meet us at Shopware Community UnConference in Cologne

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Meet us at Shopware Community UnConference in Cologne
Tideways 2025.1 Release

Tideways 2025.1 Release

Product | Tech

Tideways 2025.1 Release
Our Open-Source Contributions in 2024

Our Open-Source Contributions in 2024

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Our Open-Source Contributions in 2024