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PHP is one of the most widely used scripting languages for web development. From e-commerce platforms to government portals, PHP powers a large share of the web. However, as web applications grow in complexity, user expectations also rise. Slow page loads, broken features, or unresponsive sites can lead to lost revenue, lower engagement, and frustrated users.

According to the 2025 PHP Trends Report, 31% of developers cited performance bottlenecks as a recurring issue and PHP memory leaks were among the top culprits identified by DevOps teams working with high-traffic applications. Imagine you're shipping an app that’s humming along smoothly during QA. But weeks after going live, you start noticing creeping latency and irregular job failures. You dig into the logs, tweak some queries, but the issue persists.

VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams This VictoriaLogs article serves as a quick way to grasp the core concepts of VictoriaLogs. It covers only the most important information from the documentation, along with common cases identified after troubleshooting many real-world scenarios. If you’re just getting started with VictoriaLogs, this is a great place to begin. For more in-depth or advanced details, refer to the official documentation.

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team, and he is also a Grafana Champion. Wilfried currently works at OVHcloud, where he focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customers satisfaction. Grafana needs a database to store all its objects, such as users, dashboards, or even data sources. Each time a user creates a dashboard, it results in a new row created in the database.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll see how fixing small inconveniences at work can make things easier and help us get more done. “It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” – Queen Elizabeth II It's the little changes in life that bring lasting effects. Small, incremental improvements often add to meaningful comfort over time.

Not every migration is about rushing to the cloud. More often, it’s about timing, precision, and ensuring that end-users remain unaware of any underlying change. The goal isn’t just to modernize. It’s to do so without disrupting what’s already working. One of our customers, a global feed company with over 1,000 daily Citrix users, reached out to us for guidance.

Coroot is excited to feature an editorial from the open source observability database GreptimeDB as an Open Source Spotlight. We hope to improve the work of our global community of SREs and DevOps professionals by sharing exciting projects like GreptimeDB, which make innovation accessible for everyone through the freedom of open source.