roadrunner-bundle VS async

OK, got it now. For bootstrap-once approach, I used RoadRunner bundle which worked perfect. I would have used it now if I knew how to set it in existing Docker 😂

I played with all 3 and was happiest with RoadRunner. But at that time, in Symfony4 and PHP7.4 age, too many bundles were leaking memory including my own code.

Instead of Swoole, you might want to try RoadRunner: https://roadrunner.dev/docs/integration-symfony/2.x/en

Now, to integrate RoadRunner in our microservice we add Roadrunner Bundle

I really wanna get into writing more asynchronous PHP but having to switch to a whole different web server and execution mode is a major stumbling block. The only library (that I know of) that allows asynchronous code in traditional PHP environment is this one by Spatie.

You can leverage https://github.com/amphp/parallel or https://github.com/spatie/async without changing the app much.

To handle this problem i've used "https://github.com/halaxa/json-machine" to decrease the memory usage and "https://github.com/spatie/async" to decrease the take taken for the "update process" to complete

It drove me crazy too, until I needed to use Puppeteer which requires you to write async/await (there are Puppeteer implementations in other languages, but they all seem to make compromises I didn't want). Generally speaking, async/await allows you to write code that looks and feels serial. Perhaps try using one of the async libraries for PHP to wrap your mind around the concept of async/await (like https://github.com/spatie/async)

Try using spatie's async package and run a chunk of 10 tests in each batch, if that works it might cut your waiting time by quite a lot.

Spatie