1103. How to Optimize the Performance of a Real Web Application with a Monitoring Tool
Updated on: 2022-07-26
Posted on: 2022-07-26
Many experienced developers have learned how to improve their coding habits to write code that will run faster.
If you have already written an application, it may be tough to determine if you have already written the code in a way optimized to run at the highest speed.
Fortunately, some tools can help you figure out which parts of your applications are worth the effort of optimizing to achieve speed improvements.
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 are worth optimizing.
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If you have already written an application, it may be tough to determine if you have already written the code in a way optimized to run at the highest speed.
Fortunately, some tools can help you figure out which parts of your applications are worth the effort of optimizing to achieve speed improvements.
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 are worth optimizing.
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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: 2022-07-01
Posted on: 2022-07-01
Books are one of the most popular means of learning about any topic.
Suppose you are a developer willing to become better at any topic about PHP and related technologies. In that case, you certainly are interested to know about good books that others recommend to learn.
Read this short article to learn about some books recommended for beginner and advanced PHP programmers by Anastasiia Lastovetska, a technology writer at MLSDev.
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Suppose you are a developer willing to become better at any topic about PHP and related technologies. In that case, you certainly are interested to know about good books that others recommend to learn.
Read this short article to learn about some books recommended for beginner and advanced PHP programmers by Anastasiia Lastovetska, a technology writer at MLSDev.
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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: 2022-06-21
Posted on: 2022-06-21
Measuring the performance of an application is a complex subject. You need to learn many aspects so you can determine how to measure the performance values, so you can make good decisions on what you can do to change your application code, to make your code run faster in a way that is noticeable by the application users.
Visual tools can help you as an application developer to view and interpret the current performance values, so you can compare those values before and after you make code changes, so you can confirm that your application will really run faster after you make those code changes.
Read this short article to learn more about how to visualize the performance values of your Laravel or Symfony applications any time you want using the Scout APM tool for free.
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Visual tools can help you as an application developer to view and interpret the current performance values, so you can compare those values before and after you make code changes, so you can confirm that your application will really run faster after you make those code changes.
Read this short article to learn more about how to visualize the performance values of your Laravel or Symfony applications any time you want using the Scout APM tool for free.
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Updated on: 2022-06-07
Posted on: 2022-06-07
If you have a site and you notice that it is slow, that is an issue that may affect the user experience, and users may leave the site for that reason.
To solve the slowness problem, first, you need to find the causes that make the site slow before you can start fixing the performance issues.
Read this short article to learn more about how to find and fix slow requests served in your Laravel or Symfony applications using the Scout APM tool for free.
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To solve the slowness problem, first, you need to find the causes that make the site slow before you can start fixing the performance issues.
Read this short article to learn more about how to find and fix slow requests served in your Laravel or Symfony applications using the Scout APM tool for free.
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Updated on: 2022-06-07
Posted on: 2022-06-01
Many PHP applications use an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) approach to store and retrieve application objects using SQL to query relational databases.
N+1 Queries is the problem many applications have with using traditional approaches to implement Object-Relational Mapping (ORM). These approaches may cause performance loss if the developers still need to fix the application code to avoid this problem.
Read this short article to learn more about N+1 queries and how to find and fix performance issues caused by these queries in your Laravel or Symfony applications using the Scout APM tool for free.
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N+1 Queries is the problem many applications have with using traditional approaches to implement Object-Relational Mapping (ORM). These approaches may cause performance loss if the developers still need to fix the application code to avoid this problem.
Read this short article to learn more about N+1 queries and how to find and fix performance issues caused by these queries in your Laravel or Symfony applications using the Scout APM tool for free.
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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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