PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:36 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Zend Developer Zone: ZendCon Sessions Ep. 29: PHP - Faster & Cheaper. Scale Vertically with IBM i]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/13755 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/13755 New on the Zend Developer Zone there's the latest episode of the ZendCon Sessions (as recorded at ZendCon 2009). This episode is a talk Sam Hennessey gave on scaling vertically with IBM i.

Welcome to the ZendCon 2009 edition of the ZendCon Sessions. The ZendCon Sessions are live recordings of sessions that have been given at previous Zend Conferences. Combined with the slides, they can be the next best thing to having attended the conference itself. [...] This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2009 in San Jose, CA and features Sam Hennessey giving his talk: "PHP - Faster And Cheaper. Scale Vertically with IBM i"

There's three ways to catch this latest episode - you can either listen via the in-page player, download the mp3 directly or subscribe to the ZendCon Sessions feed and get the latest episodes automatically. Be sure to check out the slides too!

]]> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:32:21 -0600 <![CDATA[Marco Tabini's Blog: 5 PHP Performance Tips You Probably Don't Want To Hear]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6875 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6875 In a new entry on his blog today, Marco Tabini introduces us to 5 PHP Performance Tips that we "probably don't want to hear".

I thought it might be interesting to write an article about the performance-enhancing tips you probably don't want to hear about - that is, those that are most likely to produce measurable (and durable) results but do require some effort on your part.

His list consists of:

  • You Don't Need To Plan Ahead In Order To Have A Plan
  • Combat Database Abuse
  • Do You Really Need A Database Anyway?
  • Scale Horizontally
  • Refactor To Scale Vertically
For each, he explains the title and gives a bit of validation to the point. There's some great mentions of tools that you can use to help accomplish them too - a profiler, the Lucene and Xapian full-text databases, and Lustre.

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