Running opencloud – great nextcloud replacement

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I’ve been running owncloud, then nextcloud for years. While it worked I was never very happy with it. Performance was always lackluster even for 1-2 users, features added are seemingly superfluous and was never something I wanted or cared about (groupware, AI assistant, talk features – don’t use, need or care). All I want is … Read more

Benchmarking of PHP application with php-fpm vs swoole/openswoole

Benchmarking of PHP application with php-fpm vs swoole/openswoole

How realistic is this benchmark? Before people start pulling out pitchforks from their basements (sheds, whatever) – I do realize this is a rather NOT a realistic test-case scenario. In the real life scenario, it is somewhat unlikely your API will just be serving some static json responses without any io calls. And even a … Read more

Mezzio php framework – using swoole/openswoole with nginx reverse proxy (with docker containers and docker compose)

There are many reasons why you may want to use reverse proxy in front of your application – (such as mezzio php framework with swoole/openswoole). Reasons to use nginx with your php+swoole/openswoole applications: efficient serving of static assets – while swoole will serve it very efficiently, but it will never beat raw compiled performance of … Read more

PHP Swoole setcookie urlencode and base64 alternative

One issue Ive ran into recently: Swoole and Openswoole use urlencode to encode cookies when one invokes Swoole\Http\Response->cookie() method instead of rawurlencode. While swoole offers an alternative in form of rawCookie ( and then you could encode value as you wish) – not all depnedent frameworks and libraries support that: https://openswoole.com/docs/modules/swoole-http-response-cookie Some popular PHP libraries … Read more