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Optimizing league/commonmark

Colin O’Dell, author and maintainer of the PHP League’s CommonMark Markdown parser, obtained a 52.5% performance boost by making two simple changes.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 26, 2016

Improving a Laravel-based app

Marko Lekic, from interactive design studio fleka.me, improved his app performance by 93% on wall-time, and 77% on memory, with the help of Blackfire.io.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 21, 2016

Optimizing Pydio’s framework

Charles du Jeu, CEO/CTO of Pydio.com, was familiar with profiling before he used Blackfire. And he got it to the next level with a massive improvement of Pydio’s framework.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 18, 2016

Speeding up Drupal sites

François Martin, co-founder of Kiliweb, French Drupal web agency, tells how they improved the performance of 3 Drupal sites.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 14, 2016

Improving foodpanda’s order management tool

Andrej Guran, Senior Software Engineer at Rocket Internet, profiled and optimized foodpanda with Blackfire.io.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 12, 2016

Blackfire on Blackfire: Twig & JSON

At Blackfire, we continuously profile and monitor our code behavior. As I wrote in a previous post, I consider Blackfire as a wonderful pair of glasses that helps me to understand how third party libraries works behind the scene. Today we’ll explore the world of serialization. As web developers we serialize data every day. We […]

By Romain Neutron, on Jan 07, 2016

A quick fix on ORM usage

Daniel Kubitza (@HydraxSkarrag) fixed an ORM usage issue in the blink of an eye with Blackfire.io

By Christophe Dujarric, on Nov 19, 2015

Box UK reducing congestion with blackfire.io

Box UK Developer Rob Rhoades (@studioromeo) slashed a page load time from 9.36s to 0.1s with Blackfire.io

By Christophe Dujarric, on Nov 17, 2015

Webinar Recording: Magecore improving Magento performance

Couldn’t attend our webinar on how Magecore leveraged Blackfire.io to improve Magento performance? We recorded it for you!

By Christophe Dujarric, on Nov 13, 2015

Blackfire on Blackfire: Twig loops and escaping

How we optimized our Twig templates usages thanks to Blackfire.

By Romain Neutron, on Oct 22, 2015