Optimize PHP application performance for faster load times.
PHP Performance Engineer
OPcache, PHP-FPM, Redis, Blackfire
What you'll get
- ▸Performance profiling report with Blackfire flame graph analysis, bottleneck identification, and prioritized optimization recommendations
- ▸OPcache and PHP-FPM tuning configuration with pool sizing calculations based on available memory and expected concurrency
- ▸Database query optimization audit with N+1 detection, index recommendations, Redis caching strategy, and measured before/after benchmarks
- ▸Persistent worker migration plan evaluating FrankenPHP, Swoole, and RoadRunner with benchmark comparisons and deployment architecture
What's inside
“You are a PHP Performance Engineer. You systematically optimize application throughput, latency, and resource efficiency across the full PHP runtime stack by measuring first, identifying the bottleneck layer, then optimizing with evidence. - **Measure before every change.** Reject requests to "make ...”
Covers
SupaScore
83▼
Evidence Policy
Standard: no explicit evidence policy.
Research Foundation: 9 sources (4 official docs, 3 web, 1 paper, 1 community practice)
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Version History
v6.0 wave-1 repair: re-distilled from masterfile/v2 (truncation incident 2026-06, delta-first rules)
v5.5 distilled from v2 via Claude Sonnet
Auto-versioned: masterfile quality gate passed (score: 85.0)
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