Spiral Framework VS Plates

From the same developers :

PHP framework : https://spiral.dev/

ORM library : https://cycle-orm.dev/

This SDK server is already available for RoadRunner 2.0+ and Spiral Framework users.

✅ Spiral (Twig, Blade, Latte, Plates, Smarty, Handlebars, Mustache, Spiral View)

To give you some hint, you mention few of our instruments - RoadRunner, Cycle ORM. Accidentally, theese instruments are also part of our main battle framework - Spiral (https://github.com/spiral/framework), which we use for all of our commercial projects for over 12 years so far.

Check https://github.com/spiral/framework - it would satisfy your perf requirements (roadrunner under the hood). We pushed it up to 250k on synthetic hello world, but in real world 20k are achievable without much hassle.

Yes, you are responsible for cleaning the memory after yourself. Most of modern frameworks can do it for you since they can control the state using DI. If you are looking for a more friendly way to manage memory take a look at https://github.com/spiral/framework It is Symfony like framework developed specifically for resident memory applications.

I use PHP with Route, the Plates template engine, and my blog posts are markdown files grouped by folder (year/month/day.md).

If it's a simple project you could try Plates. Escaping is a little more verbose, but you don't have to learn any new syntax since it's native PHP.

✅ Plates

Start reading through PSR standards and see if some (not all) of them sound like good ideas to you, and write a mini framework of your own around those ideas, with composer to import high quality third party packages such as Plates.