Tideways GmbH

Our friends over at Packagist Conductors, creators of Composer, released a new product that I got to beta test for a couple of days now. https://lnkd.in/d37t2epf Think: “What if Dependabot/Renovate deeply understood PHP and ran in your CI.” I'm delighted so far! It runs using the proper composer binary inside our own CI workflows, using a template we've been provided with, which integrates into their webhooks. So we get all the benefits of being able to set up the project (plugins, etc.) before checking for updates. No more guessing why Dependabot doesn't pick up a dependency! The logical grouping of upgrade sets it does is great and makes merging version updates less work and better testable. The benefit of fully focusing on and deeply understanding the PHP ecosystem we also leverage at Tideways GmbH in action. <3 While we don't use Flex or other composer plugins, I can see how this will help other projects that do quite a lot in having better upgrade management. Excited about the full release.

How to deal with an increasing traffic load? It’s what e-commerce vendors dream of - and also fear, if not prepared properly: A sudden sharp rise in traffic on their website. Will it withstand the high user frequency, or will it collapse under the strain? Our customer Holocafé faced this challenge due to their TV appearance on the German version of Dragons’ Den. We present a knack for a Laravel application to prepare for this very case. Our primary move was to use Cloudflare as an HTTP reverse proxy to cache the main page of the site and other mostly static pages that users were most likely to click on. Compared to the complexity of changing the code of an application not designed for high traffic, this solution proved to be easy to implement. In our most recent blog post, we show you how to use this ruse for your own Laravel application step-by-step. https://lnkd.in/ev9C3gTG

A look at PHP 8.4 through the performance lens! When a new version of PHP is about to be released, discourse often revolves around the changes developers will face. As we’re all about optimizing performance, our approach differs. We take a close look at debugging and operations-related changes. Take the SHA-NI for SHA-256, for example. Our colleague Tim added SHA-NI support for the SHA-256 hash algorithm to PHP core. This improves performance by a factor of 2x to 5x, which is a fantastic gain, making SHA-256 even faster than some of the less secure alternatives, allowing to improve performance and security at the same time. Read our latest blog post to learn more about the other modifications: from a performance perspective. https://lnkd.in/eRiwxngG

If all closures with a namespace look identical because of a missing source location, debugging becomes a daunting task. If you don't know where the spring in the mountains originates, you won't know where to start looking for a hiker who got lost on the way searching for it. Translated in our special case, this means that troubleshooting is even more challenging if the source location of a closure is not included in the stacktrace. In all versions prior to PHP 8.4, this was the case for closure naming. As a measure of enhancement in PHP 8.4, the closure name now incorporates the source location where it was declared in. Tideways Profiler and Xdebug already had code that included the source location. Tim, who is employed by Tideways, has made a contribution to the PHP core for inclusion in version 8.4. This modification will improve Tideways and other APMs/Exception Tracking tools in places where they use PHP backtrace functionality. Read more about this journey to the core of 8.4, the milestones along the way and the adventure of locating the source - and thus the possibility to find lost hikers - in our latest blog post. https://lnkd.in/evmJsKdt

If you want to learn all there is to know about Magento performance optimizations then there is no better teacher than Ivan Chepurnyi

Profiling can reveal bottlenecks in third-party code installed via Composer that you cannot modify yourself. However, with the Composer Patches plugin, you can make the necessary changes to the third-party code to fix performance problems. In this blog post, we will look at an example of patching the Symfony ErrorHandler and removing a few thousand deprecations triggered by Shopware to improve performance by 600-700 ms per request. https://lnkd.in/e2ad8xjD

In line with our objective to improve clarity and user-friendliness are several new features which we present to you in our Tideways 2024.3 Release. Our new Sidebar Menu, the Release Tracking Feature and an increased comparison range for Releases and Markers as well as the possibility to show error messages also in notifications all fall into this category. Summary: - PHP 8.4 support from the start - Turn navigation into an intuitive experience: Our new Sidebar Menu - Compare Aggregated Traces directly from Incident and Release Tracking - Crawler Detection - Allow opt-in to show error messages in notifications https://lnkd.in/eCu72GwB

Don’t be spooked, it’s all friendly ghosts at Mage unConference 2024 in Cologne! You wouldn’t want to miss out on the Halloween edition of this event which is put on by FireGento e.V. We’re grateful that it can take place, thanks to the dedicated organizers. Benjamin Eberlei will be there on November 2nd to meet you and participate in some engaging sessions. Hope to see you there! Here's the link to the event: https://lnkd.in/eDuxsKYQ #mageuc24

Welcome to our partner program, 8mylez! We're close to each other — not in terms of distance, but close in orientation and attitude. We’re both Shopware aficionados, highly experienced and specialized in our respective fields, enthusiastic about our work and aware that the performance of a webshop is a decisive factor in the purchasing decision. Likewise, we’re also on the same page when it comes to our customers. We want to provide them with the best tools to run high-performance PHP websites and deliver an excellent e-commerce experience. Many 8mylez GmbH customers have been using Tideways for quite some time now; so it was the logical consequence to cast this cooperation in a partnership framework. If you’re an 8mylez customer, we’d love to share our knowledge about PHP and Shopware performance with you. As a company deeply connected to the PHP community, we have team members who contributed to the PHP language itself, as well as to various open-source libraries. They’ve incorporated their knowledge into Tideways to bring you the best performance optimization insights.

Moin and welcome to our partner program, Metaways! Moin! That’s the most popular salutation at our new partner Metaways Infosystems GmbH in Hamburg. We at Tideways, although based in Bonn, wholeheartedly embrace this way of greeting each other as our roots are also up north. In the spirit of these roots, we are now merging both “ways” to provide our mutual customers with wings, so that they can experience PHP on an uplifted level. At Metaways, a team of experienced system, software and DevOps engineers are dedicated to hosting demanding e-commerce and Pimcore projects. With our PHP Profiling, Monitoring and Exception Tracking tool, we at Tideways are dedicated to improve user experience and run stable and performant PHP applications for our customers.