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

Swoole – solve “WARNING Worker_reactor_try_to_exit() (ERRNO 9012): worker exit timeout, forced termination”

I’ve recently ran into this error message with mezzio/swoole – which would popup for every hot reload on code change. Ive tried couple of different things (completely on the hunch) like: disabling ticks (this didn’t help) disabling side swoole processes (this didn’t help) raising max_wait_time to 60 seconds (this didn’t help) checking mysql/redis connection pools … Read more

Mezzio swoole/openswoole – determine if we are in a worker or task worker process

I’m a huge fan of swoole/openswoole for php as It solves a lot of hard scalability problems for us that is hard to solve otherwise in php. One of these problems is connection pooling. Why use connection pools for your redis or mysql connections? – but for speed of course! it takes relatively significant amount … Read more