Workerman is an open-source high-performance PHP application container. It greatly expands the traditional scope of PHP applications and is widely used in Internet, instant messaging, app development, hardware communication, smart home, Internet of Things and other fields.

## Why choose Workerman?

- **10–100x performance improvement**: Workerman is 10–100 times faster than traditional frameworks; what previously required 10 servers can now be handled by one Workerman server.

- **Enterprise-level stability**: After 10 years of continuous refinement and improvement, Workerman already has enterprise-level stability and has been used by thousands of companies in production environments.

- **Simple and easy to use**: Compatible with the existing Composer ecosystem, using the same coding style with several times the performance improvement.

- **Not just web**: In addition to web, Workerman is also widely used in IoT, microservices, instant messaging, games, proxy servers and many other fields.

## Application scenarios

- Web sites, HTTP APIs, microservices, WeChat mini programs, etc.

- Internet of Things, smart home, sensors, Internet of Vehicles, device monitoring, etc.

- TCP, UDP, WebSocket, socket.io, instant messaging, customer service systems, chat apps, chat rooms, push, etc.

- Mobile applications, mini programs, mobile games, online games, etc.

- HTTP proxy, SOCKS5 proxy, TCP proxy, UDP proxy, etc.

- Microservices, scheduled tasks, message queues, crawlers, SaaS, service monitoring, etc.

## Ecosystem

- **workerman**: High-performance PHP application container, providing powerful functions and extensibility.

- **webman**: Ultra-high-performance HTTP framework based on the Workerman container, usable for web sites, HTTP APIs and other Internet fields.

- **GatewayWorker**: Distributed instant messaging system based on the Workerman container, usable for chat rooms, IoT and other instant messaging services.

- **MQTT**: MQTT client based on Workerman, commonly used in the IoT field.

- **Message queues**: Redis message queue, RabbitMQ, Apollo, etc.

- **PHPSocket.io**: PHP version of socket.io, with good client compatibility, commonly used in instant messaging.