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Some tips for making Symfony2 faster on Vagrant + VirtualBox

Some tips for making Symfony2 faster on Vagrant + VirtualBox

Le site Web de JoliCode, une nouvelle tranche de vie !

Jordi Boggiano gives some hints on how to improve the performances of a Symfony2 powered website

In this talk, Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc., Inc will talk about a how to scale a Drupal web site with the following statistics. 3.4 million pages per day peak 92 million page views per month 189,650 page views per hour peak 840,000 visits on peak day 22.96 million visits per month 52,747 visits per hour peak So far, this is the highest traffic a Drupal site gets that we heard of. What is amazing is that this web site runs on a single mid range server ...

"All I can say to conclude is that this is worth playing with, and that Symfony2 really doesn't disappoint with regard to speed."

Install PHP-FPM on Ubuntu. Good to run with nginx.

Base de donnée publique des résultats des tests Phoronix. Phoronix est un framework de test développé en php qui fait appel à des applications de benchmark existantes).

A great talk recently given by Rasmus Lerdorf at the "Hacker Dojo' in San Francisco. Lots of goods inside, particularly around the usage of Hiphop PHP.

Slides de la présentation de Rasmus Lerdorf lors des Digg « Engineer-to-Engineer: San Francisco Tech Talks ». http://about.digg.com/blog/rasmus-lerdorf-php-performance

nginx + php + apc is faster than mod_php apache mode. Here is how to install and setup it up.

O'Reilly Radar's James Turner conducted a very informative interview with Joe Stump, current CTO of SimpleGeo and former lead architect at Digg, in which Joe makes some of his usually insightful comments on his experience using Cassandra vs MySQL.

How to faster a site written in PHP without changing the code.

One of the first benchmarks of Hiphop PHP. Where it is said to be 200x times faster than PHP as an Apache module for massive Singleton or Static calls.

A first benchmark of the main PHP compilers. Where HipHop PHP seems to perform well, but not at a tremendous level as expected. The benchmarked PHP code is only non-object code.

A Symfony plugin for using Redis as a cache backend.

A performant key-value database. A PHP module is available, that lets PHP access to Redis in a performant way.

Using the &-ref-operator and foreach() vs. for vs. while(list() = each())