Tag: hhvm

This blog is now faster than ever

After we changed silently to using WordPress a few weeks ago for this blog (from the ageing Flux CMS software), we now also upgraded the server software to the latest and greatest …

New Relic extension for HHVM updated to latest version

Since I first published my New Relic extension for HHVM, I didn't do much and we stayed on that HHVM version (3.1). A lot changed in HHVM , which was one of the reasons I didn't do …

My HHVM talk slides from yesterday’s Webtuesday

Yesterday I gave a talk about HHVM and Hack at the monthly webtuesday here in Zurich. The slides can be found here It was a great evening, thanks to Netcetera for hosting it, thanks to …

HHVM and New Relic

As discussed in one of my last blog posts , we really like New Relic for performance metrics and use it a lot. Unfortunately there isn't an extension for HHVM (yet) and HHVM is …

Of HHVM, Hack and the future of PHP

Anthony posted a very interesting opinion piece about the future of PHP . I want to specifically comment on the part about HHVM and Hack. I have of course published my own opinion on …
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Software Developer, Platform Gardener

Collecting performance data with varnish and statsd

One of our currently bigger projects is soon going online and one part of it is an API, which only delivers JSON and XML to a lot of possible clients. To speed things up, we use …

HHVM with Symfony 2 looks amazing

With the recent announcement of Facebook that their HHVM is now more and more compatible with most of the popular framework , I was intrigued to finally try it out. We're currently …

The future of PHP

A few months ago the current development branch for the next major release of PHP was dropped . It was in development for several years and was intended to bring Unicode support to the …
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Software Developer, Platform Gardener