Caching with Memcached and APC

English session

Today's high-traffic web sites must implement performance-boosting measures that reduce data processing and reduce load on the database, while increasing the speed of content delivery. One such method is the use of a cache to temporarily store whole pages, database recordsets, large objects, and sessions. While many caching mechanisms exist, memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. Coupling memcached with the alternative PHP cache (APC) can greatly improve performance by reducing data processing time. In this talk, Ben Ramsey covers memcached and the pecl/memcached and pecl/apc extensions for PHP, exploring caching strategies, a variety of configuration options to fine-tune your caching solution, and discusses when it may be appropriate to use memcached vs. APC to cache objects or data.

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Schematic

Ben Ramsey is a Senior Software Architect at Schematic. He is a prolific writer and frequent speaker, often writing and speaking about web services and HTTP. He has written for php|architect, International PHP Magazine, and Zend Developer Zone and is a co-author of php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide. Ben is also the founder of the Atlanta PHP user group. He blogs at benramsey.com, and is on Twitter at @ramsey.