Caching on the Edge

Fabien Potencier Sensio

Besides obvious optimizations like using APC, you probably have some caching strategy for your PHP projects. Did you know that caching is a large part of the HTTP specification? In the first part of this session, I will show how you can take advantage of HTTP caching. In the second part, I will show how to use Edge Side Includes, aka ESI with reverse proxies like Squid and Varnish.

MySQL Server Performance Tuning 101

Ligaya Turmelle MySQL/Oracle

Optimizing the queries you send to the database can greatly increase the database's performance, but what do you know about all those strange MySQL variables that can be played with to get even more power from the database? Join me as we go over some of the basics of the various MySQL settings you can twitch, tweak and massage to get the most out of your MySQL server.

Rev it up with PHP and IIS

Josh Holmes Microsoft

PHP on IIS has had an amazing performance jump in the past 2-3 years but you can always squeeze a little more torque out of an engine with the right tuning. In this session we’ll dive into improvements in FastCGI and fantastic new libraries such as WinCache 1.1 for exceptional performance in your applications as we go under the hood with IIS.

Cloudy with a Chance of PHP

Josh Holmes Microsoft Eli White HiiDef Travis Swicegood

Over the past few years, Cloud hosting has rocketed into the main stream buzzword mania. The promise of on demand computing resources is an exciting and disruptive change in the IT world. Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace are three of the leading providers in the PHP space. The support and offerings from each are dramatically different while still holding to the principle of on demand computing resources. The awesome part is that with the Zend’s Simple Cloud API breaks down the learning curve and offers a lot of freedom in your cloud application code. In half day tutorial, cloud computing experts Josh Holmes, Travis Swicegood and Eli White will dive into the promises and realities of cloud computing and what the leading vendors offer.

The PHP performance paradox

Zeev Suraski Zend Technologies

During the last few years many features were added to PHP 5, but in a seemingly counter-intuitive way, it also became significantly faster with each major release. This session will describe the internals of PHP, the PHP Virtual Machine and the most important PHP 5 changes and optimizations related to performance.

Memcached, the Better Memcache Interface

Ilia Alshanetsky Centah Inc.

This session will introduce the audience to the memcached PHP extension that provides a more flexible and performance friendly interface to the de facto caching solution for PHP applications. The talk will be comprised of code examples for a variety of use cases and comparison points between it the older memcache interface.

Building Intelligent Search Applications with Apache Solr 1.4 and PHP5

Israel Ekpo Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Online

This is a presentation on how to create intelligent web-based search applications using PHP 5 and the out-of-the-box features available in Solr 1.4. After we finish we finish the illustration of adding, updating and removing data from the Solr index, we will discuss how to add features such as auto-completion, hit highlighting, faceted navigation, spelling suggestions, and similar matches.