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Raise your hands for Blackfire CLI: Profiling everything from your terminal

Everything you need to know about using Blackfire CLI to trigger profiles for HTTP requests and CLI commands.

By Thomas di Luccio, on May 31, 2023

Unlocking the power of asynchronous PHP: Performance optimization with Swoole and Blackfire

Explore the opportunities and limitations of the paradigm shift Swoole introduces in PHP applications performance optimization.

By Thomas di Luccio, on May 24, 2023

Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 5 of a series

Unleash the full power of Blackfire Tests suites by plugging them with your CI/CD pipeline, so you’ll never deploy code that degrades app performance.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Apr 04, 2023

Distributed Profiling: How to identify and fix Performance Bottlenecks in a Microservices Architecture

Gain understanding of a decoupled application’s performance thanks to the recursive distributed profiling of microservices.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Mar 29, 2023

Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 4 of a series

Discover the power of Blackfire Scenarios to test the performance of all your applications’ critical user journeys in part 4 of our Blackfire test suite.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Mar 22, 2023

The Power of Blackfire Alerting

That’s right: power! Blackfire Alerting, bundled with Monitoring, can help you achieve Total Operational Excellence.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Mar 15, 2023

Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 3 of a series

In the third installment of our Blackfire test suite series, you can learn how to simultaneously test all your applications’ critical user journeys.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Mar 08, 2023

Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 2 of a series

In the second part of our Blackfire test suite series, learn how to create custom metrics that rely on your application logic.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Feb 22, 2023

Understanding Monitoring Traces, Extended Traces, and Profiles

Let’s dive into the different levels of data collected and used by Blackfire, including Monitoring Traces, Extended Traces, and Profiles

By Thomas di Luccio, on Jan 30, 2023

Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 1 of a series

In the first part of a series of articles, learn how to use Blackfire’s testing suite and how to run your first test.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Jan 19, 2023