As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. For a long while if you wanted to parallelize long tasks you had to resort to forking through pcntl\_fork which had its own issues, and you couldn’t really handle the results of those tasks properly, etc. As such, a habit has kind of developed where we go straight for more intricat...

If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard . There are several ways to ease the pain a little: debug bars, putting timers a bit everywhere. Or if you’re courageous like I was for a long time, you use xdebug snapshots which requires you to configure it, and then parsing the snapshots which takes a long time, etc. Re...

By now you’ve probably heard about this new cool tool on the block called Webpack . If you haven’t looked that much into it you’re probably a bit confused by some people calling it a build tool à la Gulp and other people calling it a bundler like Browserify . If on the other hand you have looked into it you’re probably still confused because the homepage presents Webpack as both. To be ho...