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Boosting performance of a complex Drupal 7 project with Blackfire.io

PreviousNext used Blackfire.io to optimize one of their client website. Learn more about their experience.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Aug 23, 2015

Appzio’s 5-fold speed increase

A few weeks back, we received an amazing praise over Twitter from the Appzio.com guys. We were curious about how could they be so ecstatic, so we had a chat with them.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jul 29, 2015

Why Sensational AG chose Blackfire.io to continuously improve their app’s performance

Early adopter of Blackfire.io, Philip Hofstetter, CTO at Sensational AG, is one of the first subscribers of Blackfire Enterprise Edition. He recently shared his experience on Blackfire with us, and the benefits of its use.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jul 16, 2015

ownCloud: Recent Performance Optimizations

A little under two weeks ago, a performance improvement in the open source project ownCloud was first accompanied by a Blackfire graph showing the difference in code execution time. Since that first graph, the ownCloud developers are profiling all over to find ways of making the most popular private cloud server as fast as possible.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 21, 2015

Contao: A Small Patch, but a Great Speedup

A single line of code might hide a big performance bottleneck. Learn how Contao find out a performance issue thanks to Blackfire.

By Fabien Potencier, on Jan 15, 2015

Pomm: A two hours run with Blackfire.io

“We want Pomm to be the fastest object model manager for Postgresql. Even though we know it is already, it is now clear we can shape it like a bullet thanks to Blackfire.”

By Christophe Dujarric, on Dec 11, 2014

Performance Impact of the PHP Garbage Collector

Composer got a huge performance boost last week thanks to the disabling of the garbage collector. Blackfire now displays a bunch of information about the PHP garbage collector calls to help you understand what’s going on in your PHP code.

By Fabien Potencier, on Dec 08, 2014

A Quick Profile of PhpSpec using Blackfire.io

As a contributor to PhpSpec (A SpecBDD or Unit Testing tool) Ciaran McNulty was interested to see how Blackfire would work with CLI applications, so he decided to give it a try.

By Fabien Potencier, on Dec 04, 2014