March 10, 2015
Blackfire, PHP Profiling by SensioLabs
Blackfire is a new service by SensioLabs. It’s a web based utility to help benchmark your PHP applications. I’ve just sat down to give it a try. I’m blown away!
Installation was very simple via a Brew Keg (blackfireio/homebrew-blackfire
) and I tested it with a Symfony Framework
application using one of my custom commands.
The standard interface tracks a single test batch:
You have 10 slots to store test batches. This allows you to compare your benchmarks from one iteration to another, as shown below:
Hat’s off to the interface people - that’s some sweet work.
A incredible addition to the toolkit.
Also, take a look at this simple toggle for XDebug.