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.
Flame Graphs for PHP Profiling PHP 5.0+
A visualisation of sampled call stacks showing where CPU time is spent — the fastest way to identify hot paths in a PHP application.
2mo ago
performance intermediate
Full-Text Search PHP 5.0+
Efficient natural-language search across text fields using inverted indexes — far faster than LIKE '%query%' for large datasets.
2mo ago
performance intermediate