Laravel Octane Keeps Workers Hot
Octane runs a Laravel application inside a persistent worker — FrankenPHP, RoadRunner, or Swoole — so the framework boots once instead of every request.Typical request latency drop…
Read article →OPcache Tuning for Production
OPcache stores compiled bytecode in shared memory. opcache.memory_consumption (256MB on busy sites) and opcache.max_accelerated_files (20,000 for big apps) are the first knobs to t…
Read article →PHP JIT in 2026: Where It Helps
PHP's JIT (added in 8.0) compiles hot code paths to native machine code. For typical web requests the win is small — the request cycle…
Read article →PDO Best Practices for 2026
Set PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE to PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION. Set PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES to false so the database (not PHP) does the prepare. Set PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE to PDO::FETCH_…
Read article →PHP-FPM Tuning Without Guesswork
Choose pm.dynamic for moderate sites and pm.static for high-traffic sites where you have measured the memory cost per worker.Calculate pm.max_children as (available RAM × 0.7)…
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