ām clearly an obsessive person: when I test somethingā¦ when I get an ideaā¦ I never let go. šŖ
A few weeks ago, I needed to rebuild my server infrastructure. It was starting to get old, and a lot of things had been done hastilyā¦ Anyway, it worked from 2020 to 2025. š ļø
While rebuilding the infra, I decided to create clean Docker images, flawless deployment scripts. I donāt want deployments to be complicated anymore: I want to ship features fast and well. ā”
And then, while working, I discovered FrankenPHP. š§āāļø
At first I thought: āYes, this solves a problem. PHP-FPM is a pain to dockerize, and Apache is slow and old.ā
I played with it, used beta versions, went back to stable, etc. I twisted it in every possible way, it became an obsessionā¦ What else does it have to offer? š¤
And then, for exampleā¦ I realized that when you completely disable access logs (which I donāt need since theyāre already handled by the proxy), it becomes even faster. It handles more requests. š
So I kept pushing it, reading the docs, using LLMs, spending hours, entire days on itā¦
The result? The execution speed of all the services I host is insane. ā”š„
Before, Monsieur de France took 150 ms to respond and send the pageā¦ Now? 50 ms. The code didnāt change ā just a heavily optimized FrankenPHP.
Before, ViteUneTable LFM Edition took 150 ms between each stepā¦ Now? 70 ms. š¤Æ
Then someone mentioned n8n to me. I had never worked with it. Iād heard about it, but thatās it. Except the name ān8nā came from someone who, when they tell me about somethingā¦ I listen. Because every time? Itās a banger. š„
And here we go again: new obsession. And now, after 3 days tearing it apart in every direction, I can see all the possibilities. š¤āØ
