2025: Performance Milestone for the Symfony ecosystem

This presentation, "2025: Performance Milestone for the Symfony Ecosystem," dives into the evolution of Symfony, its commitment to performance, and the components driving its future.

Key Topics Include:

20 Years of Symfony: Tracing the framework's journey from a rigid full-stack solution (v1/v2) to a flexible, performance-focused component system (v4+).
Modern Performance Components: A deep look at new components like the JsonStreamer for minimal memory usage and 10x faster serialization of large JSON volumes, and the ObjectMapper (7.4/8.0) for improved handling of nested classes and lazy loading.
API Platform Integration: Showing how these new components are used within API Platform.
The PHP Revolution: Celebrating 30 years of PHP and exploring modern performance gains, including the use of FrankenPHP in worker mode to achieve significant gains over traditional NGINX + PHP-FPM setups.
Future Optimizations: Highlighting ongoing work in the Object Mapper and Serializer components that promise up to 50% and 87% performance improvements, respectively.

This talk is essential for developers interested in high-performance PHP, modern Symfony development, and the future of API creation with API Platform.

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1. 2025: Performance Milestone for the Symfony Ecosystem
3. 20 years of Symfony ✔ From Symfony 1 to Symfony 4+ ✔ Innovation and Backward compatibility ✔ Flex ✔ Adaptable and performant
6. Dependency Injection use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder; use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Dumper\PhpDumper; $container = new ContainerBuilder(); // ... register services and parameters ... $container->compile(); $dumper = new PhpDumper($container); file_put_contents('Container.php', $dumper->dump());
7. PHP dumping optimization Routing Dependency Injection Translation Twig Config Expression Language Cache
8. ✔ streaming JSON interface ✔ Achieves minimal memory usage for large data volumes ✔ 10x faster serialization and 50% less memory usage JsonStreamer Component symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-3-jsonstreamer-component
9. Requests per Second
10. Time to First Byte
11. JsonStreamer vs Serializer
12. JsonStreamer Caveats ✔ Error handling during streaming ✔ Only public properties ✔ Harder to customize than normalizers
13. JSON-LD { "@context": "/contexts/Book", "@id": "/books/25", "@type": "https://schema.org/Book", "title": "1984", "condition": "https://schema.org/UsedCondition", "author": "/authors/20" } https:/ /edge-side-apis.rocks
14. use Symfony\Component\JsonStreamer\Mapping\PropertyMetadata; use Symfony\Component\JsonStreamer\Mapping\PropertyMetadataLoaderInterface; use Symfony\Component\TypeInfo\Type; final class WritePropertyMetadataLoader implements PropertyMetadataLoaderInterface { public function load(string $className, array $options = [], array $context = []): array { $properties = $this->loader->load($className, $options, $context); $properties['@id'] = PropertyMetadata::createSynthetic( Type::string(), ['api_platform.jsonld.json_streamer.write.value_transformer.iri'] ); // ... return $properties; } }
15. use ApiPlatform\Metadata\CollectionOperationInterface; use ApiPlatform\Metadata\IriConverterInterface; use Symfony\Component\JsonStreamer\ValueTransformer\ValueTransformerInterface; final class IriValueTransformer implements ValueTransformerInterface { public function __construct(private readonly IriConverterInterface $iriConverter) {} public function transform(mixed $value, array $options = []): mixed { return $this->iriConverter->getIriFromResource( $options['_current_object'], UrlGeneratorInterface::ABS_PATH, $options['operation'] instanceof CollectionOperationInterface ? null : $options['operation'], ); } }
16. API Platform #[ApiResource(jsonStream: true)]
17. ✓ Mapping of nested classes with promoted read-only properties ✓ Map to embedded object with property access ✓ Bypass lazy ghost with class transform ✓ Lazy loading ✓ Cache attributes in memory (soyuka) ObjectMapper (7.4/8.0)
18. xDebug Profile php ./vendor/bin/phpbench xdebug:profile --outdir profile
19. Future optimizations ? ✔ Object Mapper (symfony/pull/61515) 50% perf improvement ✔ Serializer (symfony/pull/52905) 87% perf improvement (by @Nyholm Tobias Nyholm) Help reviewing!
20. ✔ API Platform release manager ✔ Developer, biker, builder ✔ Father ✔ Open source advocate ✔ CTO at Les-Tilleuls.coop Antoine Bluchet aka soyuka https:/ /github.com/soyuka
21. Web and cloud experts https:/ /github.com/sponsors/api-platform
22. 10 years of API Platform ✔ API Platform 4.2 ✔ JsonStreamer component ✔ ObjectMapper component
29. Sylius ✔ PHP ✔ It’s a Symfony-based framework ✔ E-commerce ✔ Compatible with API Platform
30. 30 years of PHP ✔ PHP 8 revolution ✔ PHP Foundation (2021) ✔ JIT ✔ Lazy proxies / ghost JetBrains PHPverse 2025
31. 30 years of PHP!
33. FrankenPHP with Docker FROM dunglas/frankenphp:php8.5 # add additional extensions here: RUN install-php-extensions \ pdo_mysql \ gd \ intl \ exif \ zip \ opcache ENV FRANKENPHP_CONFIG="worker ./public/index.php" RUN cp $PHP_INI_DIR/php.ini-production $PHP_INI_DIR/php.ini COPY php-tweaks.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/php-tweaks.ini COPY . /app Symfony 7.4 detects the worker mode see https:/ /github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/60503
34. Tips ✓ Cloud ready: environment variables for every configuration ✓ Log to stderr is a good practice with containers ✓ Single container really helps with pragmatic configuration ✓ Watch mode to restart the worker in dev mode symfony.com/doc/current/performance.html
35. NGINX vs FrankenPHP Scaleway DEV1-S (2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM) Database Server: 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, MySQL Benchmark Tool: wrk (on a separate DEV1-S instance) Nginx + PHP-FPM: pm.max_children = 15 FrankenPHP (Worker Mode): worker.num = 36 FrankenPHP (Thread Mode): num_threads = 36 (Worker vs. Thread) Performance Benchmark on a Sylius Application
36. Requests per Second https:/ /soyuka.github.io/sylius-benchmarks/
37. Average latency (ms) https:/ /soyuka.github.io/sylius-benchmarks/
38. Conclusion ✔ Use worker mode ✔ Find worker { num } sweet spot ✔ Must read: github.com/php/frankenphp/discussio ns/1981
39. PHP Extensions in Go ✔ Go ecosystem is awesome ✔ frankenphp extension-init Scaffolder ✔ Declare your php functions in go comments frankenphp.dev/docs/extensions/
40. QRCode ✔ Faster ✔ Less memory usage github.com/soyuka/php-go-qrcode
41. Thanks! github.com/soyuka x.com/s0yuka bsky.app/soyuka.me phpc.social/@soyuka