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180,000 requests per second explained simply

TalkinFrenchat Forum PHP 2025 · 2025-10-09..10-10· [web-performance]
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Presentation explains how a PHP-based system handles 180,000 requests per second by describing the architecture, performance bottlenecks and scaling strategies. It covers concrete technologies and techniques used to reach that throughput (web server, PHP runtime, caching, load balancing, and infrastructure choices) and practical lessons for optimizing high-traffic PHP applications.

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  1. 0:00Performance introduction
  2. 6:53Sequential cURL requests
  3. 15:37TCP connection handling
  4. 23:20HTTP1 to HTTP3 evolution
  5. 30:23Multithreading optimization
  6. 36:38Results at 180k requests
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