Marketing, Benchmarking, and Stress Testing

To successfully market FW against giants like Laravel or Symfony, we need undeniable, reproducible data. Our marketing will rely on the concept of "Framework Productivity with Micro-framework Performance."

1. Performance Measurement

We will establish an /fw-bench repository in the ecosystem that performs automated testing on every PR.

• Tools: We will use k6 (or wrk) for synthetic load generation.
• Metrics:
  • Requests per second (RPS)
  • P95 and P99 latency (latency stability is a huge marketing point for async PHP).
  • Memory consumption per worker.
• The "Hello World" Benchmark: Competing against Laravel Octane, Symfony Runtime, and Go's net/http to show we are competitive with compiled languages.
• The "DB Heavy" Benchmark: Proving that asynchronous database connection pooling in Swoole/RoadRunner drastically reduces total latency compared to standard PHP-FPM pool bottlenecks.

2. Stress Testing the Persistent Runtime

The biggest flaw with persistent PHP runtimes (like Laravel Octane) is Memory Leaks and Shared State Bugs.

Preventing Memory Leaks

• State Isolation: Singletons in FW are stateless. Handlers are instantiated per-request or depend only on immutable services.
• Stress CI: Our CI will run an endpoint 1,000,000 times inside a Swoole worker. If memory usage grows by more than 5MB across the run, the CI pipeline will fail automatically.

Connection Leaks

• Connection Pooling: FW will ship with a built-in Async Connection Pool for PostgreSQL/MySQL. The stress test will rapidly disconnect clients to ensure connections are safely returned to the pool, preventing connection exhaustion.

3. Modular Service Providers (MSPs) / Micro-Service Patterns

To support scaling from monolithic skeletons into massive architectures, FW supports MSPs:

• Modules declare their own Route, Dependency, and Event constraints natively.
• An MSP approach means developers can effortlessly tear a directory like modules/Billing/ out of the monolithic app-skeleton and deploy it as a standalone Microservice simply by dropping it into a fresh FW skeleton.