PHPMaster.com: Getting Started with Varnish
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial that can help you increase the performance of your application relatively painlessly with the help of the Varnish proxy tool. The article helps you get...
View ArticleMichael Nitschinger: Benchmarking Cache Transcoders in PHP
Michael Nitschinger has written up a new post comparing a few different methods for serializing or translating objects to store them in a cache. In it, he compares the PHP serializer, the igbinary...
View ArticleJames Fuller: Simply scale with Nginx, Memcached, PHP-FPM and APC
James Fuller has posted a guide to scaling your web application using the nginx web server, memcached, PHP-FPM and APC caching. We sell an educational product that serves a predictable 15,000 requests...
View ArticleKevin Schroeder: Would this be a dumb idea for PHP core?
In this new post to his site Kevin Schroeder thinks out loud and wonders if an idea of his is "a dumb idea" to be included into the PHP core - engine state caching. I was consulting and I would see...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Working with Slim Middleware
On PHPMaster.com Timothy Boronczyk has written up a tutorial about using the Slim microframework as a sort of "middleware" in your application - a wrapper around other functionality with an easier to...
View ArticleChris Jones: Using PHP 5.5's New "Opcache" Opcode Cache
Chris Jones has a new post to his Oracle blog today talking about the new "opcode" opcode caching that's going to be built into future PHP versions This is the implementation of the Zend Optimizer+...
View ArticleRob Allen: Caching your ZF2 merged configuration
Rob Allen has a a new post to his site today showing how you can cache the merged settings from all of your configuration files combined in a Zend Framework v2 application. Zend Framework 2's...
View ArticleThe PHP.cc: PHP 5.5: Out-of-the-Box Bytecode Cache
In a new post to their site, the PHP.cc (well, Sebastian Bergmann) takes a look at the bytecode caching feature that's included in the latest release of PHP, version 5.5. PHP is an interpreted...
View ArticleReddit.com: Question about the relevance of benchmarking
On Reddit.com there's a new post from someone relatively new to PHP wondering what the relevance of benchmarks is in a time when most performant sites use caching (full page or data) to increase their...
View ArticleDavey Shafik: Everything You Need to Know About OpCode Caches
Davey Shafik has a new post to his site today sharing everything you need to know about opcode caches, the mechanism that's works "behind the scenes" to cache the execution of the opcode paths for...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: HHVM revisited
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post from Bruno Skvorc talking about a technology that's growing more and more popular all the time in the PHP ecosystem - HHVM, the virtual machine version of...
View ArticleMaster Zend Framework: Make Module Configs Cacheable with the ZF2 Factory...
Matthew Setter has a new post today on the "Master Zend Framework" site looking at the use of caching for Zend Framework 2 module configurations. For the longest time, I've been using closures in my...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Laravel Unwrapped: Session, Auth and Cache
On NetTuts.com today there's a new tutorial introducing you to the Laravel framework and how to use its session, authentication/authorization and caching systems. One thing though that not a lot of...
View ArticleEdd Mann: Storing PHP Sessions/File Caches in Memory using TMPFS
Edd Mann (of the Three Devs & A Maybe podcast) has shared a method of session storage he worked up to help increase performance in his application. He shows how to store sessions in memory with...
View ArticleDutch Web Alliance: Using Varnish with ESI for a REST API
In the latest post to the Dutch Web Alliance blog Bas de Nooijer looks at a handy use of ESI in Varnish as a part of the output for a REST API. ESI (Edge Side Includes) let you handle the caching and...
View ArticleJurian Sluiman: SoflomoCache: manage your ZF2 cache services
Jurian Sluiman has posted about the release of a tool that aims to help you with cache handling in your Zend Framework 2 applications, the SoflomoCache component. aching is an essential part in...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Understanding OpCache
On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a new tutorial posted helping you understand OpCache, the caching engine built into PHP versions 5.5 and above. This cache isn't designed to cache data or other...
View ArticleMaster Zend Framework: Easy Cache Configuration With...
The Master Zend Framework site has posted a tutorial centered around caching in Zend Framework 2 applications. In this new post Matthew Setter looks at using the StorageCacheAbstractServiceFactory to...
View ArticleAboutPerformance Blog: How to Spruce up your Evolved PHP Application - Part 2
On the About:Performance site today there's a new post (part two in the series, part one is here) about increasing the performance in your PHP application. In this new post he talks about a few other...
View ArticlePrzemek Sobstel: Preventing the Dogpile Effect
Przemek Sobstel has a recent post investigating an interesting theory in caching of any kind of application, not just PHP ones. He looks at the dogpile effect: when a cache expires and the database or...
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