Critical eZ architectures
for media market
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Agenda
. Nexen Services @ Alter Way
. High performance challenge
. Media platform
• Gala, Psychologies
. Best practices for eZ architectures
• 01informatique
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Alter Way Group
Resolve Invest
Implement Fortify
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Media market reference
. Over 100 millions pages/month
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From the field
Marketing just bought
You just sold us an HA platform, twice as much adwords!
and today we are down! Can we manage the traffic
increase?
Will my platform support my traffic ?
How fast can we
scale in case of
success of our new
portal?
How to cope with early results
for French president race
on Swiss media?
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From the field
Marketing just bought
twice as much adwords!
and today we are down!
How come
You just sold us an HA platform,
Can we manage the traffic
Britney Spears crash increase?
our server just
Will my platform support my traffic ?
How fast can we going out of her
scale in case of
success of our new home?
portal?
How to cope with early results
for French president race
on Swiss media?
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Performance
Response time
Texte
Availability Traffic
Capacity Scalability
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Scalability
. Where to put the next server?
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eZ page structure
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Solutions at each level
Browser cache Expire, cache control
CSS Static cache
Javascript Static cache
Binary files Static cache, CDN
eZ cache Locking issues
PHP Edition / publishing
SQL Usually the bottleneck
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Traffic and events
. Average is not real traffic
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Traffic and events
. Plan for uneven traffic
• It may be regular
• It may be planned
• It may be sudden
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Traffic and events
. Plan for uneven traffic
• It may be regular
• It may be planned
• It may be sudden
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Traffic and events
. Plan the unmanageable?
. Manage the unplannable?
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Media Market specifics
Peak traffic
Monthly traffic Content live cycle
Quality of Service means readers and revenues
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Conception rules
. Know your traffic patterns
. KISS eZ : Keep It Seriously Simple
. Cache at every level
. Avoid all-in-one solutions
. Talk with your hosting
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Merci
. Christophe Ballihaut
• christophe.ballihaut@nexen.alterway.fr
. http://www.nexenservices.com/
. entreprises@nexenservices.com
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