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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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Should You Use OPcache Preloading in Your PHP App?

Should You Use OPcache Preloading in Your PHP App?

PHP Performance | Tech | Video

Should You Use OPcache Preloading in Your PHP App?
Meet us in Amsterdam June 16-18th

Meet us in Amsterdam June 16-18th

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Meet us in Amsterdam June 16-18th
A Multi-Step Strategy for better Full Page Caching

A Multi-Step Strategy for better Full Page Caching

PHP Performance | Tech | Video

A Multi-Step Strategy for better Full Page Caching
Join Benjamin and Diana at the e-commerce BBQ 2025!

Join Benjamin and Diana at the e-commerce BBQ 2025!

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Join Benjamin and Diana at the e-commerce BBQ 2025!
Tideways 2025.2 Release

Tideways 2025.2 Release

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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

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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?

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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: