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On August 27, 2026, the Magento and Adobe Commerce community will meet in Prague for Meet Magento Czech 2026. The conference brings together e-commerce professionals for a full day of talks, networking, and community exchange. This year, Tideways is happy

In discussions about PHP performance optimizations and micro-optimizations, there is often someone hand-waving the discussion down with, "PHP is rarely the bottleneck; I/O is." But is that really true? Our data shows otherwise: across 1240 production proj

When you want to know the last time some user was seen or some resource was accessed/viewed, then usually you reach to a timestamp column and update this to the current time whenever it's seen or accessed. You may have written this kind of SQL statement (

With PHP 8.6, array_map gets about 10% faster in a synthetic benchmark - with zero changes to your code. My colleague Tim contributed the engine-level optimization that makes this possible. With PHP 8.6, the engine will automatically improve the following

On July 7, the Magento and Adobe Commerce community will gather in London for Meet Magento UK 2026. Organized by JH in partnership with the Magento Association, Meet Magento UK brings together merchants, agencies, developers, technology partners, and Adob

Understanding complex request traces is one of the hardest parts of performance analysis. In this Release, we focused on making this significantly easier in Tideways. The Timeline has been redesigned to provide a clearer view of how requests are executed,

ScaleCommerce, one of our longest-standing partners, is hosting their annual e-commerce BBQ in Karlsruhe. Join the community on June 11, 2026 at HubRaum Karlsruhe for a day of workshops, conversations, and networking. Benjamin will be there and is happy t

The Shopware Community Day (SCD) brings together merchants, developers, and industry leaders for a day of insights, strategy, and innovation at Confex in Cologne. Benjamin and Diana are looking forward to engaging discussions on performance, Shopware, and

The IPC, organized by Software & Support Media GmbH, takes place from June 8th to 12th and features a lineup of well-known community members. Unlike Munich, this time it's a home game for Volker: he doesn't have far to travel to IPC Berlin. In his talk PH

Tideways will be attending PHPDay, the long-running PHP conference organized by GrUSP. The event takes place in Verona, Italy, on May 14-15, 2026. This year, Tideways is joining as a Gold Sponsor. From our team, Volker, Tim, and Tobi will be on site. Volk