Chapters

37 Chapters | 3:44:49 |

01

Performance, Profilers and APMs

5:35
02

Blackfire Install: Agent, Probe, Chrome Extension

3:14
03

Installing the Agent, Probe & Chrome Extension

6:26
04

Wall Time, Exclusive Time & Other Wonders

7:47
05

Finding Issues via the Call Graph

6:50
06

Comparisons: Validate Performance Changes, Find Side Effects

3:56
07

Recommendations

6:25
08

Property Caching

8:17
09

Using a Caching Layer & Proving its Worth

4:24
10

The N+1 Problem & EXTRA_LAZY

5:59
11

Fixing N+1 With a Join?

4:38
12

Profile All Requests (Including Ajax)

6:03
13

The Blackfire CLI Tool for AJAX Requests

4:46
14

Profiling Command Line scripts

6:33
15

Timeline: Go Behind-the-Scenes with your Code

7:15
16

Timeline: Finding a Hidden Surprise

4:38
17

Spotting Heavy Object Instantiation

6:06
18

Service Subscribers

6:22
19

Manually Profile (Instrument) Part of your Code

9:04
20

SDK: Automatically Create a Profile

4:43
21

Creating an Automatic Probe Early in your Code

7:57
22

Performance Tests

6:45
23

All about Metrics

9:27
24

Assertions / Profile "Tests"

4:07
25

Blackfire Player

4:47
26

Expectations/Tests with Blackfire Player

6:10
27

Deploying to SymfonyCloud

5:01
28

Database Tricks on SymfonyCloud

8:00
29

Blackfire Environments

7:17
30

Production Profile: Cache Stats & More Recommendations

4:18
31

Automatic Performance Checks: Builds

7:15
32

Builds with Custom Scenarios

5:32
33

Per-Page Time Metrics & Custom Metrics

4:29
34

Testing a Build Compared to the Last Build

7:46
35

Staging Servers on SymfonyCloud

4:46
36

Staging Environment Builds

7:56
37

Blackfire Environment Variables

4:15

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Course Overview

Blackfire.io: Revealing Performance Secrets with Profiling

Make your app soar! Decipher the art of profiling - from setup to AJAX requests with Blackfire.io.

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About this course

This tutorial can be used to learn how to profile any app - including Symfony 5.

What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

// composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "php": "^7.1.3",
        "ext-ctype": "*",
        "ext-iconv": "*",
        "blackfire/php-sdk": "^1.20", // v1.20.0
        "composer/package-versions-deprecated": "^1.11", // 1.11.99
        "doctrine/annotations": "^1.0", // v1.8.0
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "^1.6.10|^2.0", // 1.11.2
        "doctrine/doctrine-migrations-bundle": "^1.3|^2.0", // v2.0.0
        "doctrine/orm": "^2.5.11", // v2.6.4
        "phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock": "^3.0|^4.0", // 4.3.2
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "^5.4", // v5.5.1
        "symfony/console": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/dotenv": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/flex": "^1.9", // v1.21.6
        "symfony/form": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/framework-bundle": "4.3.*", // v4.3.9
        "symfony/http-client": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/property-access": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/property-info": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/security-bundle": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/serializer": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/twig-bundle": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/validator": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/webpack-encore-bundle": "^1.6", // v1.7.2
        "symfony/yaml": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "twig/extensions": "^1.5" // v1.5.4
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle": "^3.2", // 3.2.2
        "easycorp/easy-log-handler": "^1.0.7", // v1.0.9
        "fzaninotto/faker": "^1.8", // v1.8.0
        "symfony/browser-kit": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/css-selector": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/debug-bundle": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/maker-bundle": "^1.13", // v1.14.3
        "symfony/monolog-bundle": "^3.0", // v3.5.0
        "symfony/phpunit-bridge": "^5.0", // v5.0.3
        "symfony/stopwatch": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/var-dumper": "4.3.*", // v4.3.10
        "symfony/web-profiler-bundle": "4.3.*" // v4.3.10
    }
}

We're developers... so of course we like fast stuff! But performance is more than a nice-to-have, it has a serious impact on how happy your customers are and (gasp) on sales! How sure are you that your app is as fast as it could be? Are there hidden (and maybe easy-to-fix) performance bottlenecks? And if there are... how can we find them? Ah, welcome to the science-art of profiling!

In this tutorial, we'll talk about our go-to profiling tool: Blackfire.io and how to leverage it to find any type of performance blocker. By mastering some skills, we'll find and eliminate real performance problems: