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Tech Deep Dive 24.03.2026

Multiplayer Game of Life with PHP and SSE

Conway’s Game of Life — multiplayer, real-time, without writing application JavaScript. Built with php-via: a reactive web engine for PHP built on OpenSwoole — the only client-side code is the 12 KB Datastar shim.

~500×

Brotli compression ratio

127 KB transferred vs. 60,589 KB uncompressed · 2 min of gameplay

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Case study 25.02.2026

SPA vs. Hypermedia: Real-World Performance Under Load

We built a hypermedia application and benchmarked it against a production SPA reference implementation (Next.js) under real-world conditions — Slow 4G, mobile device, 4× CPU throttling.

26×

less data transferred

7.5×

faster to interactive

21.8×

less JS execution time

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