Performance terms
Every millisecond matters — here is how to win them back
Slow software costs money, loses users, and erodes trust. Performance engineering covers profiling, caching strategies, database query optimisation, network latency, memory management, and the architectural patterns that keep systems fast under real-world load. Most performance problems are invisible until they are not — these terms help you find and fix them before your users do.
Brotli vs gzip Compression PHP 5.0+
Brotli (br) compresses 15-25% better than gzip for text content — use Brotli for supported browsers (all modern ones), gzip as fallback, both configured at the server level not PHP.
2mo ago
performance intermediate
Batch Processing PHP 5.5+ Processing records in grouped chunks rather than one at a time, reducing per-record overhead and enabling efficient bulk database operations.
2mo ago
performance intermediate