Benjamin Eberlei

Founder and performance detective at https://tideways.com - hosting the Undercover ElePHPant podcast (https://undercover-elephpant.com). Open-Source contributor to Doctrine and PHP-SRC.

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2026-10-07 11:20:34 UTC

The good amount of "PHP performance tweaks" blog posts will recommend you to increase max_execution_time and it drives me crazy every time this is sold as "performance advice".
For better performance and scalability, you need to decrease max_execution_time and in this blog post and video I argue why:
https://tideways.com/profiler/blog/what-is-the-best-value-for-max-execution-time-in-php?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=what-is-the-best-value-for-max-execution-time-in-php

2026-08-15 08:07:56 UTC

We are at #froscon #froscon2026 with a @nprofile…9pgr booth! Come say hi if you are here this weekend!
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/117/098/489/640/485/055/original/509e66b71d0decf9.png

2026-08-14 08:20:30 UTC

We are looking for a Developer Relations Engineer with a focus on #Magento2 or #Shopware6 to join @nprofile…pyuq - is that you or do you know someone?
https://tideways.jobs.personio.de/job/2750965?language=en

2026-08-06 11:54:50 UTC

I dug deep into our huge dataset of production PHP applications and found: In one third of PHP projects processing takes up 50% or more of the time, and I/O less than that.
https://tideways.com/profiler/blog/mythbusting-php-is-rarely-the-bottleneck-data-shows-40-of-time-spent-in-php
#php #performance

2025-06-17 10:57:52 UTC

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@nprofile…utw6 to counter that perspective, $pdo->exec("INSERT INTO") does also not insert at that point if you are in a transaction, so 🤷‍♂️

2025-05-14 12:30:46 UTC

To satisfy my own curiosity and that of the community, we have built a benchmark to evaluate: Is PHP 8.4 faster than its predecessors 8.3, 8.2 or even 7.4?
See our results:
https://tideways.com/profiler/blog/php-benchmarks-8-4-performance-is-steady-compared-to-8-3-and-8-2?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=php-benchmarks-8-4-performance-is-steady-compared-to-8-3-and-8-2
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2025-03-19 18:44:56 UTC

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@nprofile…dhpg we stopped publishing 32bit packages for @nprofile…awgz over 5 years ago, at that point already nobody was using them.

2025-02-07 10:41:16 UTC

Our FPM tuning blog post is a top 3 evergreen content for more than 4 years now, and we finally gotten around to build a tool that puts all the knowledge in there into a simple calculator: https://tideways.com/tools/fpm-configuration-calculator
wdyt?

2024-12-10 13:56:24 UTC

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@nprofile…utw6 heute könnte VW sicherlich auch nen auto für 5000 herstellen, wenn sie nur die sicherheitsvorkehrerungen des alten wagens da umsetzen müssten (also keine).