AMAmbix·Feb 10, 2022
Laravel is great, but sometimes just overkill for simple tasks. That was the reason for me to start PHP Comet, it's like SlimPHP on async steroids:
https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
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Modern PHP framework for building blazing fast REST APIs and microservices
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| May 2020 | 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Jun 2020 | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Jul 2020 | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2020 | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2020 | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2020 | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2020 | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2020 | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2021 | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2021 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2021 | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| May 2021 | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2021 | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2021 | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2021 | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2021 | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2022 | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
13 sources- RapidAPI as my frontend and payment provider
- Comet [1] for pretty highload machine translation service
- Hetzner for cheap but powerful hosting
[1] https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?I used to work both with Go and PHP.
At first when I started digging into Go I thought that eventually I'll replace platform for all my future PHP projects. But it never happened.
Every time I should implement business logic and info exchange with database I immediately became frustrated with so much boilerplate code of Golang. In comparison, writing such code in PHP is real breathe.
But suddenly I've got used to Go speed and want to get the same benefits for my PHP APIs. So I've implemented my own framework with low latency and hight throughput in mind. It beats many Go frameworks on TechEmpower Benchmarks! Now I feel like I found epiphany finally :)
https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In PHP in 2021> endless mazes of "get a Request object from a RequestFactory
Comet to the rescue: https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In PHP in 2021Server-side-rendering all the way! Still using good-ol PHP which really shines with Comet: https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?Modern PHP frameworks (Workerman, Swoole, Comet) rank as top performers of Techempower Benchmarks. Much higher than Python / Ruby / Node.js and head-to-head with the Golang based project performance.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the Comet:
https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In I finally escaped NodeWhy is it so? I've got 100K requests per sec with PHP easily [1]
[1] https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In 12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworksModern PHP frameworks initialize "entire application" only once at startup and process each request really fast.
See the benchmarking charts there: https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In Graalphp: An Efficient PHP Implementation Built on GraalVMThats interesting. In PHP world the situation radically different: modern frameworks based on libevent are really speed up web apps up to 10x.
I've thoroughly benchmarked my own framework[1] for REST APIs and now it outperforms many of Go / Node.js platforms on Techempower[2]
[1] https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
[2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=e...
In Async Python is not fasterI kinda prefer PHP for most of my web backends like yet another REST API.
Modern framewrok like Comet easily beats any NodeJS or Python project regarding performance and latency:
https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In 25 Years of PHPI'm digging into PHP and creating performant yet PSR compliant framework for building ultra-fast REST APIs:
https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
In Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?Comet – modern PHP framework for building fast REST APIs
5 points · Open discussion