fatfree VS Workerman

Fat-Free Framework also known as F3, is an open-source PHP micro-framework designed for building web applications. It has 2.6k stars and 400+ forks on GitHub. It allows you only to use the necessary code. It doesn’t need complex configuration, such as setting up Composer, curl, or a complex directory structure. It supports SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL/Sybase, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.

https://github.com/bcosca/fatfree ?

That and internal code that looks like this. And I thought Laravel was obfuscated.

I remember a consulting gig where they were pushing 50k requests per second with PHP in a 2018 laptop by using this framework https://github.com/walkor/workerman

In a real application, with database connection pooling and auth sessions, it went down to 15k requests/s.

And that was PHP7. PHP8 introduced JIT so it's probably significantly faster these days and hopefully fully typed.

The code above is an example of creating a websocket server from the usage example on the workerman/workerman page on github.

Workerman

That's cute. I managed to get 100k requests per second on a single i7 CPU this week using standard blocking code with Workerman. Zero added cognitive load. It also does DB pooling, workers, sockets and consumes relatively lower memory than other solutions.