Apm

Mastering Node.js Observability: From OpenTelemetry to Custom APM Solutions

27 November 2025·2152 words·11 mins

Node.js DevOps Performance Architecture Node-Js Observability Opentelemetry Apm Monitoring Performance-Tuning Docker

It is 3:00 AM. Your pager goes off. The checkout service is experiencing high latency, but the CPU usage is flat. The logs are a chaotic stream of text, and you have no idea which database query is hanging the event loop.

Top 7 Performance Monitoring Tools for PHP Applications to Scale Efficiently

27 October 2025·1418 words·7 mins

Performance DevOps PHP Ecosystem Php-8 Apm Monitoring Blackfire Sentry Xdebug Optimization

Introduction # Let’s be honest: in 2025, performance isn’t just a “nice-to-have”—it is a feature. If your API takes 500ms to respond, your users are already looking at your competitor. While PHP 8.3 and 8.4 have introduced massive performance gains at the language level (hello, JIT improvements!), your application code, database queries, and third-party API calls remain the biggest bottlenecks.

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