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!
LWN runs an interesting article, covering different ways of archiving a website. It sounds trivial, but it’s not. Even the simplest of ways – wget – will probably take you a few dozen attempts to figure out the following:
$ wget --mirror --execute robots=off --no-verbose --convert-links \
--backup-converted --page-requisites --adjust-extension \
--base=./ --directory-prefix=./ --span-hosts \
--domains=www.example.com,example.com http://www.example.com/
There a few other interesting tools (like pywb) mentioned.
Eric Hammond shares a super-handy tip for those of us who work with Amazon AWS via the command line:
I just learned about a recent addition to aws-cli: The
--queryoption lets you specify what parts of the response data structure you want output.Instead of wading through pages of JSON output, you can select a few specific values and output them as JSON, table, or simple text. The new
--queryoption is far easier to use thanjq,grep+cut, or Perl, my other fallback tools for parsing the output.
Read the rest of his blog post for a few examples of how to use it.
“WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet” is a collection of about 10 tips for a more secure WordPress configuration file. Obviously, not all of them can always be applied, but it’s a good idea to review your own settings once in a while and to disable unnecessary bits.
As we are still trying to get the grip with HTTP/2, the world is moving on. Here’s the blog post with some initial details on HTTP/3 and QUIC. Turns out, we moving away from TCP to UDP with encryption.
Here are more details from the CloudFlare blog post.
Let the fear, uncertainty, and doubt begin!