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Oct 7, 2026 · Backend Development

Rapira: Rust-Powered PHP Server Hits 111k RPS, 10x Faster Than PHP-FPM

Rapira, a new PHP application server written in Rust, achieves 111,499 RPS with 1.07ms latency in Yii3 benchmarks by embedding the PHP interpreter directly into Rust, eliminating IPC overhead and outperforming PHP-FPM by over 10x while supporting HTTP and gRPC with isolated worker pools.