PUBLIC MARKS from mbertier with tags performance & php

There are six classic ways to group the servers that your web-based applications run on. Many small PHP shops start small, and scale up their applications when necessary. However popular your customer’s website, all web-based applications written in PHP can be refactored to run on any of the classic architecture solutions, allowing you to grow with the demand that you’re experiencing.

I was trying to improve performance for a web application recently keeping them in mind. Let me describe how to do some of them technically.

Zend_Memory is a component that offers API for managing data in limited memory mode.

XCache is a open-source opcode cacher

Not as simple as a file-based solution and not as complex as a database, the mcache daemon provides a balance between complexity and speed, while providing access to a single source of information for one or (many) more web servers.

I have given a number of presentations, both at conferences and internally at various jobs. Where possible I've made available both the presentations themselves as well as written notes available.