Avoiding Complexity

Everybody talks about performance and dreams of snappy responses for their web application. But the full-stack framework with its powerful ORM and complex code infrastructure, various external libraries and the chronically overloaded database make the goal of a high-performance website a distant prospect. The integration with various, of course, slow APIs from third parties does the rest. Oh, and e-mails have to be sent as well...

If you follow the "best practices" of many frameworks, all this work is of course done at request time. But the Unix world has shown for decades that the secret of success lies in the interaction of highly specialized and, above all, small applications.

Time to apply this insight to your own code: In this Training, we will therefore rethink a classically built web application - and simply get rid of everything slowing us down.

• Understanding types of complexity and their respective impact on performance
• Defining real performance metrics that matter
• The Unix philosophy applied to web development
• Separating concerns: Why reads and writes need different strategies
• Runtime optimization: Moving work away from request time
• Static-first approach: Building from the fastest foundation
• Dynamic content challenges: Search, real-time data, and update frequencies
• Offloading complex operations: Queues, events, and async processing
• Efficient file serving: Access control without blocking resources
• Stack simplification: Less is more

This training is designed for developers of all levels who want to improve the performance of their web applications by reducing unnecessary complexity.

Particularly suitable for teams working with full-stack frameworks who are experiencing performance issues and want to learn practical strategies to simplify their codebase and infrastructure.

Basic knowledge of PHP and web application development is recommended.

Familiarity with common web frameworks and their typical architecture will be helpful but is not required.

• You'll understand different types of complexity and how they affect your application
• You'll learn strategies to avoid unnecessary complexity in your codebase
• You'll be able to identify performance bottlenecks in your web applications
• You'll implement practical solutions to improve response times
• You'll be equipped with methods to simplify your stack while maintaining or even improving functionality