Besides the big announcements we have made in the last two weeks, the whole team has been hard at work to tweak the platform to make it more flexible.

Blackfire started by providing an easy way to profile web pages. Today, we introduce new ways to easily profile CLI scripts and API or web services calls.

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.

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.