Workerman VS aphiria

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.

Aphiria: https://www.aphiria.com/

I’ve been wanting a project just like this so I can finally try Aphiria! Very well done project, definitely worth a look.

Aphiria is a fav of mine - lesser know but being a fresh take since PHP 8 it has some opportunities that older frameworks never did.

I haven't promoted it much because it's still in alpha testing, but my framework Aphiria.

Compare output from Laravel to a framework that's not bed-ridden with overuse of Reflection, like Aphiria and see the result for yourself.

One of the promising frameworks I noticed is https://www.aphiria.com/ in case someone is interested to try out something different, something that's not full of evangelists who are wolves in sheep clothing.

Those are some of the things I sought to solve with MixerAPI. This is another project which saw the same shortcomings as I did, https://www.aphiria.com/, I just didn't think it made sense to build a ground-up framework to solve the problem. Use something existing, build on top, and don't mess with existing workflows in the framework. Just augment them is how I feel about things at least.

Author of Aphiria here. The base controller just provides a few properties and helper methods. If that's too much coupling for you, it supports POPOs as controllers too.

I use them as a micro-optimization in my router. Whenever I find a potential matching route, I yield return it and check it against constraints, eg does the HTTP verb match. This way, I don't have to grab all potential route matches prior to checking constraints.