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Loïc Faugeron
Personal blog · gnugat.github.ioprogrammingweb
Loïc Faugeron's personal blog at gnugat.github.io covers programming and web. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Super Speed Symfony with ReactPHP”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Discussed in a HN thread titled "Taking PHP Seriously". The one comment weighs PHP's per-request bootstrap model against long-lived startup caching in frameworks like Rails' ActiveRecord.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technical articles about Symfony and TDD
Most-linked posts?
- Super Speed Symfony with ReactPHP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-19
What Hacker News says?
The downside is literally exactly the same as the upside: you have to bootstrap from literally nothing for every single request. Think about how ActiveRecord in Rails reads from the DB schema to generate it's magic methods, etc. This is usually done on startup or at least cached in memory once it's loaded. This is something that you have to manage more carefully with a PHP app since you can't have anything initializ…
Comment linking /2016/04/13/super-speed-sf-react-php.html
on “Taking PHP Seriously”Submitted Event Driven Architecture – how NodeJs and Nginx work behind the hood as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Super Speed Symfony with ReactPHP as a story · 1 points
HN discussion