---
title: "Optimizing PHP applications for performance — Mateus Guimarães"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/optimizing-php-applications-for-performance-mateus-guimar-es-sjwleawfz
source_url: https://mateusguimaraes.com/posts/optimizing-php-applications-for-performance
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-05-06T03:22:49.608Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:30:38.138Z
tags: ["performance", "php"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 59
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Optimizing PHP applications for performance — Mateus Guimarães

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 8 min read · 59 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Learn how to optimize PHP applications for better performance by enabling OPCache and tuning PHP-FPM settings.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://mateusguimaraes.com/posts/optimizing-php-applications-for-performance>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@4r4ky** · 1 upvotes

> Short but really good article with pretty detailed explanations of what, why, and how everything was done.

**@brunoc** · 0 upvotes

> Another recommended tip:
>
> Disable `opcache.validate_timestamps` when running in containers due to immutable code

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