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It's hard to believe, but it's already been a month since the Dutch PHP Conference 2025 took place. We're still enjoying the afterglow of another successful edition and now you can too! In this Dutch PHP Conference 2025 recap, we're giving you a chance to relive the event and catch up on anything you may have missed. You probably noticed the photographers roaming around the venue, capturing everything from keynote moments to spontaneous hallway chats. We've bundled those moments into photo albums that are now available for all of you to view and download. Whether you want to spot [...]

As the Dutch PHP Conference 2025 has come to a close, we want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for making this edition such a great success! From inspiring talks and hands-on workshops to meaningful networking and knowledge sharing, this week has been truly unforgettable. We loved seeing so many passionate developers come together, exchange ideas, and learn from some of the best in the industry. But we’re not stopping here! We’re already gearing up for the Dutch PHP Conference 2026, and we’re committed to making it even bigger and better. Your feedback [...]

We're thrilled to have Datadog as one of our sponsors for this year's edition of the Dutch PHP Conference! Datadog is and observability and security platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals from across the technology stack so that development, IT operations, security, and business teams collaborate more effectively and take action based on a single source of truth. Datadog offers 800+ fully-supported integrations, preset dashboards and monitors, and automated AI/ML insights for immediate time to value. No matter the industry, scale, or use case, Datadog enables 29.000+ organisations worldwide to consolidate tool sprawl, break down silos [...]

A few months ago, we implemented support for exception profiling in PHP. One of the key justifications for building this functionality into Continuous Profiler was to show the hidden costs of exceptions in PHP, especially when they are used for flow control in hot code paths. Once this feature was built, we naturally wanted to know if it surfaced these kinds of flow control problems in customer production systems. We peeked into an otherwise fully operational service, and the profiler showed that this application was throwing 495,000 exceptions per 14.2 seconds: Is this a lot? In PHP, the engine [...]

The Call for Papers is over and after evaluating over 400 entries we managed to compile a very solid schedule for this year’s edition of the Dutch PHP Conference! This year’s schedule features an exclusive workshop by PHP expert Hugo Hamon, who will guide you through crafting automated tests for your PHP applications. Learn how to test all layers of your code effectively! We’re also excited to welcome Derick Rethans, the creator of Xdebug. He’ll show you how to maximize Xdebug’s capabilities to boost your productivity when writing PHP code. And great news: Sergès Goma is back! After wowing [...]