PHPImpact Blog: Zend Framework Controller: 22% Drop in Responsiveness
On the PHP::Impact blog there's a recent post that details a statistic Paul Jones found with the Zend Framework's performance - a drop in the response time of the front controller between the 1.0 and...
View ArticlePaul Jones' Blog: Lazyweb Request: Why would PHP be *faster* than HTML?
While running some benchmarks on some of the more popular PHP frameworks, Paul Jones came across something interesting - a PHP request was handled faster than a static HTML request. With the help of...
View ArticlePaul Jones' Blog: A Siege On Benchmarks
Paul Jones, who is obsessed (is that the right word?) with keeping benchamrks on recent versions of several popular PHP frameworks, has posted another look at a slight change in his testing method - a...
View ArticleThe Bakery: Writing an easy to use A/B test helper with CakePHP and jquery
In a recent post to The Bakery (the CakePHP resource) Jonathan Hendler has created a simple A/B test helper using the CakePHP framework and jQuery. Knowing what is driving the user experience is key...
View ArticleVidyut Luther's Blog: Multivariate Testing, PHP Frameworks, Plea for help.
Vidyut Luther has been looking into testing his application, not with unit tests or performance testing, but with multivariate tests (A/B testing). I was curious if anyone has any experience with...
View ArticlePaul Jones' Blog: Comparing Benchmark Tools
Paul Jones has come back around and revisited the benchmarking setup he's created and has rerun some of the baselines on a new, clean EC2 instance and posted the results to his blog. These benchmarks...
View ArticleShay Ben Moshe's Blog: PDO Persistent Connection Analysis
Shay Ben Moshe has a new post to his blog today looking at some of the benefits that using the persistent connections offered in PDO can have on your application. PDO is an abstraction layer for...
View ArticleRobert Basic's Blog: Benchmarking pages behind a login with ab
Robert Basic has a recent post showing you how to use the "cookie jar" functionality included with Apache's "ab" benchmarking tool to get behind your PHP-based login with a simple curl and grep combo....
View ArticleSystems Architect: Performance benchmark of popular PHP frameworks
On his site today Lukasz Kujawa has a post that compares some performance benchmarks of several popular PHP frameworks including Slim, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Symfony2 and Zend Framework 2. There are...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Stress-test your PHP App with ApacheBench
In this recent post to the SitePoint PHP blog Bruno Skvorc looks at using a popular tool from the Apache project, Apache Bench (or just "ab") to stress-test your application. There's no telling when...
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