Using Amfphp's Service Browser and Profiler together.

Hi this is Ariel Sommeria from Silex Labs. In this video I'm going to show you how to use the service browser's call repeater(click near call repeater) together with the profiler (switch to profiler tab) to gather information about the where the server is spending time processing calls .

This is useful for example if you want to tweak your system for performance and don't want to test manually between each change.

(switch to service browser tab)

The Service Browser's call repeater allows you to make a new call as soon as the old one is finished. Here I'm going to use the call repeater with "returnLargeDataSet" (select returnLargeDataSet, start call repeater)

You can then observe the server's performance in the Profiler. (switch to profiler tab) This is the main view that shows average values, but we're going to look at the detail for our method returnLargeDataSet (click returnLargeDataSet). Here the server is taking 100 ms to generate the data, and 360ms ms to serialize it.

The profiler is refreshing automatically. Flushing at each request is enabled, but you can also see requests accumulate if you need to.(disable flushing)

Now I'm going to enable Baguette AMF and you'll see the result directly in the profiler. (switch to IDE, enable Baguette AMF, switch back to profiler). If you look at the latter results, you can see that the serialization time has dropped from 360ms to less than 20ms.

I hope that this gives you an idea of what can be done with these tools. Thank you for watching.