Optimizing mission-critical PHP applications to be secure, compliant, and performant is an essential process for any business. After all, a well-optimized application will provide excellent user experiences and can deliver considerable returns for your company, keeping you ahead of your competition.
However, with modern PHP applications growing in complexity, understanding the current landscape well enough to create an effective optimization strategy can be a challenge. Between scaling to meet growing traffic demands, addressing security concerns, controlling management costs, and other factors, many developer teams are left wondering – where’s the best place to begin?
About the Webinar
Join Zend Senior Product Manager Matthew Weier O’Phinney and Product Owner Eleriin Rein as they take an in-depth look at the current PHP landscape to identify ongoing and upcoming trends. They will then discuss solutions and techniques developer teams can use to gain a competitive edge in 2025, such as:
- Scalability strategies for meeting expanding business requirements
- Using orchestration and containerization technology to streamline deployments
- Best practices for preparing PHP apps to handle increasingly complex security threats
- How outsourcing PHP app administration and technical support can benefit your team
- Available tools, such as ZendPHP paired with the ZendHQ extension, for optimizing PHP applications
- And more!
Zend solves the hardest problems in PHP, and we're ready to help your team gain a competitive edge through industry-leading products paired with expert services. Ready to learn more about how we can support your mission-critical applications or to discuss details unique to your business goals? Reach out today!
Additional Resources
- Secure and Supported ZendPHP Runtimes
- ZendHQ Observability and Orchestration Tooling
- Improve Performance With Zend Admin as a Service
- PHP Debugging: Go Beyond Step Debuggers With ZendHQ
- Exploring New ZendHQ Role-Based Authentication Features
- Code Tracing With ZendHQ
- PHP Logging: Best Practices for PHP Log Analysis
Presenters

Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Matthew Weier O’Phinney is the Principal Product Manager at Perforce Zend and OpenLogic, where he focuses on creating the tools developers need to build and deploy their applications. He is a founding member of the PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG), which creates and promotes standards for the PHP ecosystem, where he has served two elected terms on the PHP-FIG Core Committee and collaborated on many specifications.
Matthew began developing on Zend Framework (ZF) before its public release, and he led the project for Zend from 2009 through 2019. He acts as the Project Lead for the Laminas Project, which includes the subprojects Laminas API Tools (formerly Apigility) and Mezzio (formerly Expressive). He has contributed to many open source projects and communities, many of which can be found on github and his personal website.

Eleriin Rein
Eleriin Rein has been with Perforce for half a decade, and she has spent those years resolving pain points for our customers by learning their core problems. She is committed to pushing forward features and ideas that not only solve the most critical pain points of PHP developers today, but also consider their long-term needs.