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Articles of Christophe Dujarric

PHP 7 support on Blackfire: it’s here!

After a few months of hard work, we are thrilled to release PHP7 support. Enjoy!

By Christophe Dujarric, on Feb 02, 2016

Increasing performance of an Excel import feature

Jorge Luis Betancourt, PHP dev at University of Informatic Sciences and Apache Nutch PMC Member, figured with the help of Blackfire that switching his Excel parsing library could reduce his memory usage by 60 times and his execution time by 12,5 times!

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 29, 2016

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

Blackfire Player Open Sourced

Discover the missing link in PHP Web Crawling, Web Testing, and Web Scraper… and contribute to it!

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 13, 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 supports FreeBSD

FreeBSD support. Your platform isn’t supported yet? Ask away!

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 11, 2016

Extended data retention

Longer data retention to ease testing and comparisons.

By Christophe Dujarric, on Jan 06, 2016