Save Time, Money,
and More With Better Performance

Carsten Windler

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IPC Berlin 2024
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Have we become lazy?
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.
- Nikolaus Wirth
Wirth's law

Proof










A little npm package someone wrote years ago with no clue what they were doing and that was never maintained
https://xkcd.com/2347/
Many modern JavaScript applications


aws-sdk-php
https://pixabay.com/photos/bit-drilling-machine-628592/
>40MB
Bootstrap
Business Logic
Finish
up
.env
config
routes
middlewares
events
DI container
observers
service providers
validators
validators
Bootstrap
Business Logic
Finish
up
Request lifecyle in PHP
...and more!

What's the problem?
Time
- Developer
- CI/CD
- QA
- Product Manager
- Customer

Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán
Money

Jevons Paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox


https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-santa-claus-costume-716658/
Footprint of IT
~2%
Share of data centres in global
energy consumption
55,7
Billion electronic devices by 2025
57
Million tonnes of electronic waste in 2021
57
~4%
IT's share of total greenhouse gas emissions



Embodied carbon


Good enough?

https://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/2285261364418758/Gekochte-Eier-mit-Curry-Bananen-Sosse.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2024/03/21/xiaomi-14-ultra-review-camera-phone-king/
What can we do?

https://addyosmani.com/blog/performance-budgets/

https://addyosmani.com/blog/performance-budgets/


composer require --everything*runs/second
Guzzle
14.553*
Nyholm
17.734*
=> approx. 21% faster!
Composer packages
class DateFormatBench
{
public function benchDate()
{
date('D M d Y H:m:s');
}
public function benchDateTime()
{
(new \DateTime())->format('D M d Y H:m:s');
}
public function benchCarbon()
{
(new Carbon\Carbon())->format('D M d Y H:m:s');
}
}

How to not import CSV:
- Load the whole CSV file into memory
- Create a Model from every row
- Iterate over the Models
- Do some calculations
- Use the Model to save the data
- ...?
- Timeout
Ohhh....




Recap

- Poor performance costs time
- Poor performance costs money
- Poor performance is bad for the planet
Think before you implement

Thank you!

Carsten Windler
Principal Engineer @




linkedin.com/in/cwindler
carstenwindler.de

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