The Role of Service Maps in Optimizing PHP Application Performance
Modern PHP applications rarely exist in isolation. They run across distributed environments, connect to MySQL or PostgreSQL databases, interact with Redis or Memcached, rely on APIs, and communicate with microservices. This interconnected web brings power but also enormous complexity. When performance issues arise, finding the root cause can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Is it the database? A caching layer? A failing third-party API?