Meetup in Oslo 20 April 2016 on PSR-6, new Symfony 3.1 Component, and beyond. Organized by The Norwegian Symfony Meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/norway-symfony-meetup/events/230022422/

1. SYMFONY PHP OSLO MEETUP
New in upcoming Symfony 3.1: CACHE COMPONET
“PSR-6 Cache, Symfony Cache component, and beyond”
André Rømcke - VP Engineering @ezsystems
Apr. 20th 2016 - Oslo - Norway Symfony Meetup

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Me
๏André Rømcke @andrerom
๏VP Engineering at eZ Systems AS, eZ is:
Symfony Full stack user & active ecosystem member since 2012
Partner with Sensio Labs (and Blackfire)
Open Source CMS for more then 15 years with deep needs for intelligent caching
๏PHP-FIG voting member
Currently user of Stash Cache, project that originally initiated PSR-6
Been at times participating in discussions around PSR-6 and Symfony Cache

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PSR-6?
๏First proposed in Dec 14, 2011, final version approved Dec 8, 2015
๏Been true several iterations, polls among PHP users/library-providers, ..
๏Will be expanded in the future with additional features as implementations evolves
๏Some known implementations:
๏Stash
๏PHP-Cache
๏Symfony
๏..and many others
๏http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-6/

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PSR-6: Example
namespace PsrCacheCacheItemPoolInterface;
function getWidgetList(CacheItemPoolInterface $pool)
{
$item = $pool->getItem('widget_list');// or getItems($array) to load several cache items
if (!$item->isHit()) {
$item->set($this->computeExpensiveWidgetList());
$pool->save($item);// or saveDeferred() if it can be saved in batch by end of request
}
return $item->get();
}
No need to type hint
against Symfony with this

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Symfony Cache?

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Symfony Cache Component
๏PSR-6 Compliant cache component
๏Aims to be fast, made by Blackfire CTO: Nicolas Grekas
๏Provides several built in cache adapters by default
๏Is progressively being used in several places in Symfony Framework, right now:
๏PropertyInfo
๏Serializer
๏Validator
As per April 2016
See bonus slides at
the end

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Symfony Cache Adapters
๏APCu (per proces cache)
๏Array (in memory per request, mainly for testing)
๏Chain (chain several adapters after each-other)
๏Doctrine
๏FileSystem
๏Proxy (To reuse other PSR-6 implementations)
๏Redis
๏and more being added as we speak..
As per April 2016
See next slide

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Doctrine Cache Providers
๏APC & APCu (per proces cache)
๏Array (in memory per request, mainly for testing)
๏Chain (chain several providers after each-other)
๏Couchbase
๏File & FileSystem & PhpFile
๏Memcache & Memcached
๏MongoDB
๏Redis & Predis
๏Riak
๏SQLite3
๏WinCache
๏Cache
๏ZendCache
As per April 2016

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Cache Libs Comparisons: Features
Stash Doctrine Symfony**
Multi GET X* V V
Hierarchical V X X
Versioning X V X
Namespacing V V V
Tagging X X X
PSR-6 V X V
* Not implemented, interface has existed for long time. ** As of Symfony 3.1

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Cache Libs Comparisons: Backend lookups
Stash* Doctrine** Symfony***
article-42 2 2 1
content/item-42 3 2 1
content/item-42 &
content/item-33 5 2 1
*** W/ native adapters, not Doctrine.* memcached/redis, to compute keys for hierarchical cache. ** With versioning.
Round trips done to backend cache system for a given cache item(s) lookup, esp. important if high latency.

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Next steps for eZ perspective
๏Currently rely on Hierarchical caching to handle cache clearing on related items
๏Lets us clear cache content/55/*, and it will clear all objects we have there
๏However limited when we need to clear cache on tree/batch operations in the CMS
๏eg deleting News/ will in some cases cause all content/* cache being cleared
๏Aiming to use Cache Tagging for this instead in data cache (and HTTPCache*)
๏Example: content-55-version-44 cache item would have tags like:
• content-55
• location-33
• content-type-1 aka Folder
• [ location-path-2, location-path-13, location-path-33 ]
• Will allow us to clear relevant cache much more precisely without cache dog piling
* We already support single tag across Varnish and Symfony Proxy, aim is to support multi tag for all.

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Practical Info
๏Symfony 3.1 is coming end of May 2016
๏eZ working with others to add Tagging support
๏Either in Symfony or in Symfony Community
๏We aim to move to Symfony 3.x for our 2017
releases (earliest December)
๏Interested in talking or
sponsoring Symfony
meetups?
=> Contact organizers on the
Symfony meetup.com page!

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Bonus #1: Incoming Symfony Cache Adapter
๏OpCache (ongoing PR right now building on work done in Composer v1.1/v2)

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Bonus #2: Autoload performance in Composer.next

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Bonus #3: Plain Array?
NORMAL DYNAMIC ARRAY
$array = [
$vendorDir.’/symfony/symfony',
$vendorDir.’/ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel'
];
ARRAY USING CONSTANT EXPRESSION
const ARR = [
__DIR__.’/symfony/symfony',
__DIR__.’/ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel'
];
DIFFERENCE?
As of PHP 5.6 with Constant Expressions, opcache I can avoid having to load the array and execute it on each
request by using a constant, as it can be reuse directly from SHM (Shared Memory Cache). On large (Symfony)
installs when using composer “dump-autoload” this class map can be several megabytes which is why this can
have a big impact.
Further reading: http://blog.blackfire.io/speeding-up-autoloading-on-php-5-6-7-0-for-everyone.html

16. Fin
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