The document discusses accelerating PHP applications. It begins by introducing PHP Center of Excellence, whose goals include increasing PHP application maturity and best practices. It then discusses the challenges of developing enterprise PHP applications, highlighting aspects like requirements, architecture, tools, frameworks, testing, optimization, security and deployment. Key points are made around avoiding premature optimization, measuring performance through profiling and analysis, and optimizing areas like code, databases and servers. The document emphasizes that performance is driven by architecture and best practices.

1. Accelerating
PHP
Applications
Errazudin Ishak
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2. Agenda
Who Am I
PHP Center of Excellence
The Curious Case of Enterprise PHP
Summary
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3. Me
Senior engineer @ Mimos Berhad
Focuses on web application development,
deployment, performance and stability.
2009 : foss.my , MyGOSSCON
2010 : Entp. PHP Techtalk, BarcampKL, PHP
Meetup, MOSC2010, PHPNW UK, PHP20102010,
MyGOSSCON
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4. Agenda
Who Am I
PHP Centre of Excellence
The Curious Case of Enterprise PHP
Summary
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5. phpcoe.mimos.my
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6. phpcoe.mimos.my
Top goals;
• increasing the maturity of the PHP application life cycle,
• showcasing the best practice of enterprise PHP
development
• contributing to/supporting PHP open source projects
• supporting PHP user groups/communities
• organizing conferences/seminar
• developing localized training material
• forming and maintaining partnerships with the
communities and developing professional services.
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7. Events : Enterprise PHP Tech talk
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8. Events : Facebook Developer Garage
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9. Events : PHP Malaysia Meetup
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10. Events : PHP Northwest, UK
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11. http://goo.gl/EbTI
Accelerating PHP Application
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12. The News
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13. iSDP
Intelligent Service
Delivery Platform
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14. The struggle begins..
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15. Agenda
Who Am I
PHP Center of Excellence
The Curious Case of Enterprise PHP
(How actually we makes PHP apps fly)
Summary
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16. Enterprise == ?
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17. DBA
Enterprise PHP
Designer
TEAM Sys. Ad
Tester PHP Geek
PM
Project Lead BA
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18. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
•Customer need this …
•User want that …
•My boss add this …
•My BA... more headache …
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19. "Faster sites create happy users”
– Google, April 9, 2010
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20. Web Application Lifecycle
• Planning
o Requirement Analysis
o Design
• Execution
o Code
o Test
• Deployment
o Sys Adm nightmare?
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21. Web Application Lifecycle
• Planning
o Requirement Analysis
o Design
• Execution
o Code
o Test
• Deployment
o Sys Adm nightmare?
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22. Web Application Lifecycle
• Planning
o Requirement Analysis
o Design
• Execution
o Code
o Test
• Deployment
o Sys Adm nightmare?
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23. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
•Design Diagrams (Technical )
•HLD
•Blueprint
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24. "Real performance is architecture-driven”
- R.Lerdorf
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25. "PHP is rarely the bottleneck”
-R.Lerdorf
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26. Front End
Back End
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27. Front End
nginx Zend Server
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28. Zend Server
Back End
MySQL
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29. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
•Planning
•Development
•Deployment
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30. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
Foundation
•Stable?
•Framework vs No-Framework
•On Your Own Frame to-do work
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31. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
Foundation
Design patterns
•Best practice of solving probs.
•MVC?
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32. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
Foundation
Design patterns
Testing
•Developer, Unit, Functional,
Performance, Integration,
Usability
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33. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
Foundation
Design patterns
Testing
Optimization
•They want it fast
•We need
•Accelerator (eAccelerator, Alternative PHP Cache, ionCube
PHP Accelerator,Turck MMCache,XCache,Nusphere
PhpExpress,Zend Optimizer+,Zend Platform
•Cache (Smarty, Zend_Cache, Memcached)
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34. "Premature
optimization is the
root of all evil ”
- Donald Knuth
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35. Where to start
• System calls
o web server processes
o Index
o Web server config
o Include
o S-L-D-Ktrace / truss
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36. Find the culprit
• Include hierachy > redundancy
o Tools > pecl/inclued
o include_once/require_once
o Graph
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37. "Profile your code to pinpoint bottlenecks”
- Eric Higgins
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38. Areas
• Code
• Network
• DB
• System
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39. Profiling Tools
• xdebug
• valgrind.org
• Xhprof
• Zend Studio/Server
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40. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
Foundation
Design patterns
Testing
Optimization
Security
•Prevention of harmful event(s)
•Real Risk
•Severe consequences
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41. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
Foundation
Design patterns
Testing
Optimization
Security
Deployment
•Develop, Test, Deploy (Test, Live)
•Simple XAMPP to HA, Scalable architecture
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42. “Every nanoseconds count!” - My Big Boss
(your boss also)
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43. Layers
• Design
o Algorithm used
o Architecture
o Special tricks
• Code
o Avoid ‘slowdowns’
• Deploy
o “it works on my dev machine!”
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44. Performance Enhancement
• Measure
• Benchmark
• Analyse
• (Loop?)
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45. Key Points
• Avoid Premature Optimization
• Measuring Performance
o Memory and CPU Measurement
o Requests Per Second
• Pinpointing The Cause Of Poor Performance
• Code Profiling
• Database Operations Analysis
• General PHP Optimisation
o Opcode Caching
o Realpath Cache
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46. Key Points
• General Zend Framework Optimization
o Class Loading Optimisation
o Configuring Default Caches
o Cache At The Right Level
o Minimising Include Paths
• HTTP Server Optimization
o Optimising Apache's Configuration
o Avoiding Apache Completely
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47. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
Foundation
Design patterns
Testing
Optimization
Security
Deployment
Operation
•Helpdesk
•Monitoring
•Root cause analysis
•Change management
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48. Enterprise PHP
TEAM
Requirement
Architecture
Tools
Foundation
Design patterns
Testing
Optimization
Security
Deployment
Operation
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49. Agenda
Who Am I
PHP Center of Excellence
The Curious Case of Enterprise PHP
Summary
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50. Checklist
• Objectives & constraints
• What is the Problems
• Don’t make assumptions (VNV it)
• Right tools (but tools is just a tools)
• Use profiler with benchmarks
• Resources are limited (monitor them)
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51. Ready to make your web apps fly?
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52. Resources
• Eric Higgins, Google Webmaster
code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-php.html
• Rasmus’s talk at Hacker Dojo http://talks.php.net/show/digg/
• code.google.com/speed/page-speed
• developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
• www.zend.com/en/products/server
• www.nginx.net
• www.survivethedeepend.com
• pecl.php.net/package/xhprof
• github.com/facebook/xhprof
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53. THANK YOU
@errazudin
errazudin.ishak@mimos.my
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