Accelarating PHP Applications at INTAN Sabah Technology Updates 2011

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Accelerating PHPApplications

Errazudin Ishak

Who Am I

PHP Center of Excellence

The Curious Case of Enterprise PHP

Summary

Agenda


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

Me


Agenda


Who Am I

PHP Centre of Excellence


Summary


phpcoe.mimos.my


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.


Events : Enterprise PHP Tech talk


Events : Facebook Developer Garage


Events : PHP Malaysia Meetup


Events : PHP Northwest, UK


Accelerating PHP Application

http://goo.gl/EbTI


The News


iSDPIntelligent Service Delivery Platform


The struggle begins..

Who Am I


The Curious Case of Enterprise PHP (How actually we makes PHP apps fly)

Summary

Agenda



Enterprise == ?

Enterprise PHP


BA

Designer

Project Lead

DBA

Tester

PM

Sys. AdPHP Geek

TEAM

Enterprise PHP


TEAM

Requirement

•Customer need this …•User want that …•My boss add this …•My BA... more headache …


"Faster sites create happy users” – Google, April 9, 2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36230948@N05/

• Planning

oRequirement Analysis

oDesign

• Execution

oCode

oTest

• Deployment

oSys Adm nightmare?

Web Application Lifecycle


• Planning


oDesign

• Execution

oCode

oTest

• Deployment

oSys Adm nightmare?



• Planning


oDesign

• Execution

oCode

oTest

• Deployment

oSys Adm nightmare?



Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirement

Architecture

•Design Diagrams (Technical )•HLD•Blueprint


"Real performance is architecture-driven”- R.Lerdorf

http://goo.gl/abCVp


"PHP is rarely the bottleneck”

-R.Lerdorf


Front End

Back End


Front End

nginx Zend Server


Back End

Zend Server

MySQL

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitecture

Tools

•Planning•Development•Deployment

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureTools

Foundation

•Stable?•Framework vs No-Framework•On Your Own Frame to-do work

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundation

Design patterns

•Best practice of solving probs.•MVC?

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patterns

Testing

•Developer, Unit, Functional, Performance, Integration,Usability

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTesting

Optimization

•They want it fast•We need

•Accelerator (eAccelerator, Alternative PHP Cache, ionCubePHP Accelerator,Turck MMCache,XCache,NuspherePhpExpress,Zend Optimizer+,Zend Platform •Cache (Smarty, Zend_Cache, Memcached)


"Premature optimization is the root of all evil ”- Donald Knuth

http://goo.gl/twTea

• System calls

oweb server processes

o Index

oWeb server config

o Include

o S-L-D-Ktrace / truss

Where to start


• Include hierachy > redundancy

oTools > pecl/inclued

o include_once/require_once

oGraph

Find the culprit



"Profile your code to pinpoint bottlenecks”

- Eric Higgins

• Code

• Network

• DB

• System

Areas


• xdebug

• valgrind.org

• Xhprof

• Zend Studio/Server

Profiling Tools


Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimization

Security

•Prevention of harmful event(s)•Real Risk•Severe consequences

http://goo.gl/nPgwj

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimizationSecurity

Deployment

•Develop, Test, Deploy (Test, Live)•Simple XAMPP to HA, Scalable architecture


“Every nanoseconds count!” - My Big Boss(your boss also)

http://geekonfilm.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/vader.jpg

• Design

o Algorithm used

o Architecture

o Special tricks

• Code

o Avoid ‘slowdowns’

• Deploy

o “it works on my dev machine!”

Layers


• Measure

• Benchmark

• Analyse

• (Loop?)

Performance Enhancement


• Avoid Premature Optimization

• Measuring Performance

oMemory 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

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

Key Points


Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimizationSecurityDeployment

Operation•Helpdesk•Monitoring•Root cause analysis•Change management

Enterprise PHP


TEAMRequirementArchitectureToolsFoundationDesign patternsTestingOptimizationSecurityDeploymentOperation

Who Am I



Summary

Agenda


• 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)

Checklist



Ready to make your web apps fly?

http://goo.gl/abCVp

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

THANK YOU


@errazudin

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