phpFastCache is a high-performance, distributed object caching system for PHP. It supports a variety of drivers, as per its GitHub repository:
- APC(u)
- Cookie
- Files
- Memcache(d)
- Redis
- … and many more.
Tag: performance
AWS Application Load Balancer
I found this visual primer to the Application Load Balancing on the Amazon AWS quite interesting. Application Load Balancing is not something I am using just yet, but it’s getting there. With more and more services and pricing schemas available from Amazon, explaining things simply is not as easy as it may seem.
Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
Dropbox Tech Blog has this in-depth article on “Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency“. It goes over everything from hardware and low level operating system stuff all the way up to the application level.
Great job, guys!
Spellbook of Modern Web Dev
Spellbook of Modern Web Dev is a collection of 2,000+ carefully selected links to resources on anything web development related. It covers subjects from Internet history and basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, all the way to tools, libraries and advanced usage of web technologies, and more; from network protocols and browser compatibility to development environments, containers, and ChatOps.
- This document originated from a bunch of most commonly used links and learning resources I sent to every new web developer on our full-stack web development team.
- For each problem domain and each technology, I try my best to pick only one or a few links that are most important, typical, common or popular and not outdated, base on the clear trends, public data and empirical observation.
- Prefer fine-grained classifications and deep hierarchies over featureless descriptions and distractive comments.
- Ideally, each line is a unique category. The ” / “ symbol between the links means they are replaceable. The “, “symbol between the links means they are complementary.
- I wish this document could be closer to a kind of knowledge graph or skill tree than a list or a collection.
- It currently contains 2000+ links (projects, tools, plugins, services, articles, books, sites, etc.)
On one hand, this is one of the best single resources on the topic of web development that I’ve seen in a very long time. On the other hand, it re-confirms my belief in “there is no such thing as a full-stack web developer”. There’s just too many levels, and there’s too much depth to each level for a single individual to be an expert at. But you get bonus points for trying.
Async PHP Requests & Reactive Responses with PHP-FPM
“Async PHP Requests & Reactive Responses with PHP-FPM” is talk by Holger Woltersdorf, in which he shares the approaches he tried for implementing asynchronous requests in PHP, and how he arrived at hollodotme/fast-cgi-client, which is a PHP fast CGI client for sending requests (a)synchronously to PHP-FPM.