10x Less RAM: The Senior Guide to Native JSON Streaming in Symfony
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As PHP applications scale, they inevitably face the terrifying “OOM killer” (Out Of Memory). One of the most notorious culprits for memory exhaustion in a modern Symfony API is parsing massive JSON files or webhooks. When a partner throws a 2GB product catalog at your system, standard PHP functions simply surrender. Historically, developers relied on third-party libraries or complex chunking scripts to survive. However, with the stabilization of Symfony 7.4, the core team has provided a deeply