This two year old post about Rasmus Lerdorf’s PHP scaling tips (slides) is interesting in the context of what we’ve learned since then. APC now seems common, and it’s supposedly built-in to PHP6. Still, I’d be interested in seeing an update. Are MySQL prepared statements still slow?
And that’s where Rasmus’ latest presentation comes in. We [...]

Posted September 22, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: callgrind, performance, php, Rasmus Lerdorf, scaling, web applications, web development. Be the first one.

I’ve been working on MySQL optimization for a while, and though there’s still more to done on that front, I’ve gotten to the point where the the cumulative query times make up less than half of the page generation time.
So I’m optimizing code when the solution is obvious (and I hope to rope Zach into [...]

Posted May 31, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: acceleration, apc, caching, intermediate code cache, optimization, php, scaling, web applications, zend. 5 Comments.