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What is blackfire.io?

Blackfire.io is designed to empower PHP developers to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance in development, testing, staging and production. It makes it possible to drill down to function/method call level to understand and fix performance bottlenecks. The vendor says its wide variety of automation options makes it a breeze to add it to a development and testing workflow.

The Blackfire Player, an Open Source Web Crawling, Web Tester, and Web Scraper enables teams to set up a fully automated testing pipeline.

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Great tool to provide customers a bug free experience

Incentivized
Yatin Garg
Product Manager in Product Management at Cars24 (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I closely work with the tech leads and engineering managers for the dev requirements. One of the major challenge they faced was not able to. test the application properly before production. Blackfire.io has helped address that issue by allowing proactive testing of applications before releasing on the production environment. It also provides actionable insights to improve code beforehand and saves time for the engineering team post any development.

Pros

  • Generate actionable insights to improve code by integrating with the development softwares
  • Ensure optimal performance and user experience for web applications
  • Live monitoring of the production environment to highlight any major issues and load time delays

Cons

  • They count same API endpoint AND same method (e.g. POST, OPTIONS, GET etc) as different profiles
  • Customer service needs a lot of improvement
  • The documentation can be a bit more detailed to remove any scope of doubts

Most Important Features

  • Actionable insights to improve code
  • Monitor live code to highlight any issues and high load times
  • Helps visualise the web application performance as perceived by the end users

Return on Investment

  • Reduce in bugs by 50%, more happy customers
  • 2x decrease in load time for the website
  • 100% performance validation before production release

Alternatives Considered

Aha! and Revenera Usage Intelligence

Other Software Used

Giraffe, AliveChat, Google Workspace

Best QA Tool Out There!

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization blackfire.io is used within our development team in order to test code and expose any performance issues before go live and while in production. This tool is used to analyze any bottlenecks in performance and call out any lackluster coding patterns that could ultimately lead to a bad roll out.

Pros

  • Provide details on processes eating up valuable server resources
  • Alert against bottlenecks and find bottlenecks
  • Performs load tests in code before moving to production environments

Cons

  • blackfire.io can improve on their platform UI making the product easier to read and use
  • Improve on reporting issues in a more streamlined approach with more debugging tools
  • They could provide more support and documentation to those not aware of how to configure the tool.

Most Important Features

  • Performance testing in our non production environments.
  • Profiling code while it runs to give us metrics on bottlenecks
  • Real time monitoring to detect any performance issues as they happen

Return on Investment

  • The positive impact that blackfire.io gives to us is that we can see when our infrastructure is suffering due to codebase changes.
  • We can be proactive in assessing if codebase changes will affect performance of our servers
  • We can also proactively predict how load will be managed during times of high traffic to our site and understand how our code will react to it.

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

Other Software Used

Trend Micro Cloud App Security, Box, Netskope NewEdge

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