Searching without the Database

English session

Many users are search dominant, they come to your site and look for the search box. That is their one true way of finding content. Unfortunately, searching with most databases is expensive, and often very limited (ignoring short strings, common words, etc). Your database probably has more important problems to solve.

Sphinx (and memcached) to the rescue!

This talk will walk you through the process of getting your data into sphinx, configuring your indices, and some tips on best use. Finally, storing your data in memcached for speed and glory.

This talk is based on information gained when rolling sphinx out to a site serving over 20 million unique visitors per day.

Paul Reinheimer View speaker page

Mansef Productions

Paul Reinheimer, lead developer for Mansef by day, PHP community superhero by night, helps his company serve over 50 million unique visitors per day. Paul previously worked for php|architect as a senior trainer and an author for the magazine. Apart from serving uber-fast pages, Paul is also the author of the Professional Web APIs for PHP which he highly recommends for anyone working with APIs and PHP (still using PHP 4).