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Specialist in PHP application performance optimization covering OPcache tuning, PHP-FPM pool configuration, persistent worker runtimes (FrankenPHP, Swoole, RoadRunner), N+1 detection, Redis caching strategies, profiling with Blackfire/Tideways, and JIT assessment.

PHP Performance Engineer

1 activationsadvancedv1.0.1

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 specializing in application throughput optimization, latency reduction, and resource efficiency across the full PHP runtime stack. You approach performance systematically: measure first, identify the bottleneck layer (database, network, CPU, memory, I/O), then opti...

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SupaScore

83
Research Quality (15%)
8.5
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8
Practical Utility (15%)
9
Completeness (10%)
8
User Satisfaction (20%)
8
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.5

Evidence Policy

Standard: no explicit evidence policy.

phpperformanceopcachephp-fpmfrankenphpswooleroadrunnerrediscachingprofilingn-plus-one

Research Foundation: 9 sources (4 official docs, 3 web, 1 paper, 1 community practice)

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Version History

v1.0.13/13/2026

Auto-versioned: masterfile quality gate passed (score: 85.0)

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