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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Steven 5 years ago

The time you see in a profile will never be quite as fast as the real thing, because when the probe is activated

Blackfire is not smart enough to "remove" its processing part from its time? So to only get the real time? I'm not sure I understand 100%.

I also wonder if having the extension enabled in the php.ini, without profiling from the web extension or CLI, results in a loss of server performance or not because the extension is not "supposed" solicited.

Thanks for the clarification :)

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Jérôme Vieilledent Steven 5 years ago

Hello Steven

I understand your confusion. However, it is not trivial to remove the overhead generated when profiling. However the Blackfire team is working on it.

As for the overhead of the extension itself, when not triggering a profile, it is inexistant.
To be completely fair, it is not strictly 0, as plug-in any extension within php always comes with a really tiny overhead. But it is not caused by the extension itself. Other than that, the probe remains completely inert.

I hope this clarifies

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weaverryan SFCASTS Jérôme Vieilledent 5 years ago edited

Woo! A reply straight from the Blackfire team - thanks Jérôme Vieilledent! These are great questions - so I was also interested :)

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Steven Jérôme Vieilledent 5 years ago

Very clear answer, I'm not confused anymore.
Good luck for improving the "impact" of the probe/profiling on the time results ;)

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

Symfony 4

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
    }
}

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