March 9-11, 2011
Montreal, Canada

Caching on the Edge

Besides obvious optimizations like using APC, you probably have some caching strategy for your PHP projects. Most frameworks nowadays provide tools to cache pages, and interfaces to software like Memcache. But did you know that caching is a large part of the HTTP specification (RFC 2616)? In the first part of this session, I will show how you can take advantage of HTTP caching and how to leverage gateway caches.

Akamaï wrote the ESI language specifications (Edge Side Includes) in 2001 to provide a means to build pages with different HTTP resources. It brings a lot of flexibility to the table. Varnish, one of the most popular reverse proxy, support ESI out of the box. The second part of this session will show how you can use ESI in your next PHP project.

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Fabien Potencier

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Fabien Potencier discovered the Web in 1994, at a time when connecting to the
Internet was still associated with the harmful strident sounds of a modem.
Being a developer by passion, he started to build websites with PHP5 in 2004
and created the symfony framework to help his company leverage the
power of PHP for its customers.

Fabien is also the creator of other Open-Source projects, a writer, a blogger,
a speaker at international conferences, and a happy father of two wonderful
kids.

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