Scott MacVicar
Scott MacVicar has contributed various extensions and improvements to the PHP core over the past few years. If something is wrong with fileinfo, JSON or SQLite3 it's likely something he did. He is also the current President of the PHP London Usergroup and presents frequently at conferences on databases, caching and scaling.Scott is also the admin for the Google Summer of Code program and has written numerous PHP articles. When not connected to the internet, Scott runs marathons and cooks!
Scaling on a Shoestring View session page
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Scaling can be expensive, but a few useful open source tools allows you to do so efficiently and using cheap hardware. Alternatively cloud computing services can be utilised leaving your developers with a simple API to use and no hardware to manage.
This session will look at memcache, MogileFS, gearman, nginx, lighttpd and the offerings from Amazon Web Services.
This session will look at memcache, MogileFS, gearman, nginx, lighttpd and the offerings from Amazon Web Services.
Caching with memcache View session page
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Current users include Facebook, LiveJournal, Flickr, Fotolog and Wikipedia.
Typical usage is for caching complete pages or components, complex database result sets and sessions. While there are many caching mechanisms that exist the simplicity of memcache makes it ideal for helping scale your applications.
Memcache is application neutral and APIs are available for most languages making it an indispensible tool. This session will cover some background on memcache and its usage in your application.
Typical usage is for caching complete pages or components, complex database result sets and sessions. While there are many caching mechanisms that exist the simplicity of memcache makes it ideal for helping scale your applications.
Memcache is application neutral and APIs are available for most languages making it an indispensible tool. This session will cover some background on memcache and its usage in your application.
