Tag: performance

MySQL High Availability at GitHub

Shlomi Noach, GitHub’s Senior Infrastructure Engineer, shares some details on both the current and future high availability setup of MySQL databases at GitHub.

This is probably way too far out for most people using MySQL for their web applications.  But it does highlight the technical complexity of running high load web applications, and how some of the issues can be solved or worked around.

Pretty fascinating stuff there … 

12 Best API Monitoring Tools for Your Business

“12 Best API Monitoring Tools for Your Business” lists a bunch of services that are useful for the monitoring of your API.  Read the whole thing for more details.  Here’s the list of the services covered:

RoadRunner – high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager


RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager, written in Goland.  It sounds like an excellent replacement for the built-in PHP server, and even more than that – it’s production-ready.  And it works on Windows too.

RoadRunner is an open source (MIT licensed) high-performance PHP application server, load balancer and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis.

RoadRunner includes PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible HTTP and HTTP/2 server and can be used to replace classic Nginx+FPM setup with much greater performance and flexibility.




PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release


PHP 7.3 is scheduled to be released on December 6th, 2018.  As always, it’ll bring a few changes and new features (read more about it here or here).  But it’ll also bring a significant performance improvement.  Here are the results of a few benchmarks.  Long story short:

PHP 7.3 is just shy of 10% faster than PHP 7.2 in the popular PHPBench. PHP 7.3 is 31% faster than PHP 7.0 or nearly 3x the speed of PHP5.

Bring it on, I say!