You cannot improve what you cannot measure. That’s why profiling applications should always be the first step before trying to improve its performance. Learn how to spot your applications’ bottlenecks and how to adopt profiling into your developer pipeline. This workshop will introduce some PHP profiling tools such as XDebug or xhProf as well as Blackfire.io.

Tutorial Requirements:

Participants should have:

• A laptop
• A working Symfony demo app installed on PHP 5.5 or higher – Instructions here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/setup.html
• A working install of Composer (getcomposer.org)
• GitHub.com account

If you have any questions, please contact Nicolas Grekas – @nicolasgrekas