1107. How to Discover What PHP Code You Should Optimize First to Improve the Performance of a Real Web Application Using a Monitoring Tool
Updated on: 2022-08-19
Posted on: 2022-08-16
A profiling tool can be handy to find the parts of your application code that are slow and that you need to optimize.
If there are many parts of your application that you need to optimize, the next decision is which parts you should work to optimize first.
Fortunately, some profiling tools can help you figure out which parts of your application you need to optimize first.
Please read this short article to learn how to use the Scout Application Performance Monitoring tool to determine which parts of a Laravel or Symfony application you should optimize to achieve the most significant performance improvements sooner.
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If there are many parts of your application that you need to optimize, the next decision is which parts you should work to optimize first.
Fortunately, some profiling tools can help you figure out which parts of your application you need to optimize first.
Please read this short article to learn how to use the Scout Application Performance Monitoring tool to determine which parts of a Laravel or Symfony application you should optimize to achieve the most significant performance improvements sooner.
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Updated on: 2022-10-12
Posted on: 2022-07-28
Every time you need to solve a problem, you may realize there may be several approaches to solve that problem. Each way has its advantages and disadvantages.
This fact shows why it is helpful to learn from other developers what approach they use to solve a problem that you also want to solve.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 10 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about other methods and tools different developers use to upgrade PHP versions.
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This fact shows why it is helpful to learn from other developers what approach they use to solve a problem that you also want to solve.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 10 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about other methods and tools different developers use to upgrade PHP versions.
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Updated on: 2022-07-28
Posted on: 2022-07-12
When you make changes to a site or another aspect of your site production environment, there is always a chance that some parts may not work well after you complete the changes due to unexpected consequences.
Often these consequences cause your site's PHP code to trigger errors. These errors may start appearing after you do a PHP version upgrade.
One way to determine if there were errors after you made production environment changes is to monitor PHP errors and send emails for the new PHP errors that started to appear.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 9 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to monitor your PHP errors quickly and be notified by email, so you can fix the environment that causes the errors.
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Often these consequences cause your site's PHP code to trigger errors. These errors may start appearing after you do a PHP version upgrade.
One way to determine if there were errors after you made production environment changes is to monitor PHP errors and send emails for the new PHP errors that started to appear.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 9 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to monitor your PHP errors quickly and be notified by email, so you can fix the environment that causes the errors.
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Updated on: 2022-07-05
Posted on: 2022-06-30
Having tests to verify if a PHP version upgrade succeeded is excellent, but unfortunately, that is not enough because there are always aspects of the consequences of the version upgrade that we are not fully aware of initially.
So it is expected that some fixes may be necessary after a PHP version upgrade. Still, you may not even be aware of all the fixes you may need to do after the upgrade.
This situation is where other human beings can help you complete the quality control of the PHP version upgrade process.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 8 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how you can use the help of other human beings to assure the control of the quality of your applications after a PHP version upgrade.
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So it is expected that some fixes may be necessary after a PHP version upgrade. Still, you may not even be aware of all the fixes you may need to do after the upgrade.
This situation is where other human beings can help you complete the quality control of the PHP version upgrade process.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 8 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how you can use the help of other human beings to assure the control of the quality of your applications after a PHP version upgrade.
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Updated on: 2022-06-24
Posted on: 2022-06-24
One of the reasons why certain version upgrades went wrong is that you do the version upgrade process steps in the incorrect order.
You can determine the correct order by the more critical steps you need to do first because you can only do the following steps when you complete the crucial steps.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 7 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn the correct order of the steps to perform a PHP version upgrade.
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You can determine the correct order by the more critical steps you need to do first because you can only do the following steps when you complete the crucial steps.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 7 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn the correct order of the steps to perform a PHP version upgrade.
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Updated on: 2022-06-07
Posted on: 2022-05-30
After you have planned all the steps of a PHP version upgrade process, it is time to execute the planned steps.
Read this article, watch a 4-minute video, or listen to part 6 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to test your application features in practice during a PHP version upgrade using reliable testing tools.
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Read this article, watch a 4-minute video, or listen to part 6 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to test your application features in practice during a PHP version upgrade using reliable testing tools.
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Updated on: 2022-05-20
Posted on: 2022-05-20
Testing a PHP application may require that you test a lot of features. Therefore you need to define the order of the features that you will test.
First, you need to define the most critical features of your PHP application to verify if they are working as expected early on in the testing process.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 5 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to determine which are the most critical features you should test first during a PHP version upgrade testing process.
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First, you need to define the most critical features of your PHP application to verify if they are working as expected early on in the testing process.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 5 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to determine which are the most critical features you should test first during a PHP version upgrade testing process.
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Updated on: 2022-05-12
Posted on: 2022-05-12
The first thing you need to do to start an upgrade of a PHP version is to set up a development environment where you can test if your application continues to work well with the new PHP version.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 4 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to set up a machine to test if your PHP applications work as expected after the PHP upgrade version.
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Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 4 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to set up a machine to test if your PHP applications work as expected after the PHP upgrade version.
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Updated on: 2022-05-06
Posted on: 2022-05-06
Upgrading to a new PHP version can be a complex task that may fail due to the lack of planning on how to solve each problem of each step of the upgrading job.
Please read this article, watch an 11-minute podcast video or listen to the audio of part 3 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to plan a PHP version upgrade process so it can conclude successfully.
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Please read this article, watch an 11-minute podcast video or listen to the audio of part 3 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to plan a PHP version upgrade process so it can conclude successfully.
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Updated on: 2022-04-29
Posted on: 2022-04-28
When you consider updating your applications to use a new PHP version, many available versions are available.
Updating too soon or too late to a newer version of PHP may cause problems of instability or security in their applications.
Please read this article, watch a 5-minute podcast video or listen to the audio of part 2 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about criteria that you can use to do a safe version update.
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Updating too soon or too late to a newer version of PHP may cause problems of instability or security in their applications.
Please read this article, watch a 5-minute podcast video or listen to the audio of part 2 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about criteria that you can use to do a safe version update.
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