PHP Fibers in Production: 4 Real Cases Where They Beat curl_multi and Queues

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Fibers shipped in PHP 8.1 in November 2021. The RFC was small, the API has four methods, and most Laravel codebases still don't touch them. Open vendor/ in a fresh Laravel project and you'll find Guzzle, Symfony HttpClient, and ReactPHP all using them under the hood. Your own code? Probably none.

PHP Fibers in Production: 4 Real Cases Where They Beat curl_multi and Queues

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