1. php://memory and
streams for scaling
Neal Anders - https://joind.in/6514

2. wuzzat?
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3. whoami
Neal Anders
Senior Software Engineer at Infoblox
http://github.com/nanderoo
http://neal-anders.com
@nanderoo

4. shameless plug
Infoblox is working on some cool stuff...
- DNS, DHCP, IPAM, NCCM
- IPv6 Center of Excellence
- IF-Map / DNSSec
- Hiring (sales, services, support, engineering)

5. disclaimer
These thoughts and opinions are my own, and
not of my employer, bla bla bla...

6. whois $USER
Quick poll:
- Designers
- Developers
- Sys-Admins
- Networking
- Management
- Other...?
- Who is hiring? Looking?

7. overview
What we will cover:
- What are streams?
- Examples: memory / temp.
- Scaling your app

8. inspiration

9. say what now?
php://memory
...and temp...
...what is that?
...how can I use it?

10. what are streams
- The flow of data..
- Going in...
- Coming out...
- stdin, stderr, stdout
- php://memory and temp.
- Wrappers and php resources

11. what are streams
- Written to, read from..
- Seekable or sequential..
- Give your app room to breath..
- expect, phar, ssh2
- Examples:

12. examples
Write, Read, Seek....

13. examples
Store in memory..

14. examples
Store somewhere besides in memory..

15. examples
Or until that becomes scarce..

16. scaling your app
Doesn't that mean....
We need to use X or Y like
[hugely successful overnight start-up]?

17. scaling your app
Rethink how data flows..

18. scaling your app
Apply elastic charm..

19. scaling your app
Instrument ...everything!

20. scaling your app
What you know, you don't know..

21. scaling your app
Be prepared to change a few flat tires..

22. scaling your app
Learn from your own mistakes..

23. resources
http://php.net/wrappers.php
http://php.net/function.memory-get-usage.php
http://baconipsum.com/

24. feedback
joind.in - https://joind.in/6514
email - neal.anders@yahoo.com

25. fin
Thank you.