PHP and Memcached: The state of things
Memcached is the de facto standard for caching in dynamic web sites. PHP is the one of the most widely used languages on the web. So, naturally there is lots of interest in using the two together. The...
MySQL Conference Review
I am back home from a good week at the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo. I had a great time and got to see some old friends I had not seen in a while.Oracle gave the opening keynote and it we...
Using ini files for PHP application settings
At dealnews we have three tiers of servers. First is our development servers, then staging and finally production. The complexity of the environment increases at each level. On a development server, e...
Memcached: What is it and what does it do?
I spoke at CodeWorks in Atlanta, GA this week. I totally dropped the ball promoting it on my blog. It was a neat venue. Rather than a large conference they are doing a traveling show...
Building PECL/memcache on Mac OS X
My coworker Rob ran into an issue building the PECL/memcache extension on his Mac. He did find the solution however. You can read and leave comments on his blog....
Deploying Scalable Websites with Memcached
I spoke at the MySQL Conference and Expo this year about the architecture we have here at dealnews.com. After my talk, Jimmy Guerrero of Sun/MySQL invited me to give a webinar on how dealnews uses m...
Where Drizzle fits in for me
So, most of you have heard about Drizzle by now. For those that have not, you can check out many, many blog posts or the Launchpad page. The thread on Slashdot about Drizzle was quite negative. M...
Caching and TTL behavior
So, I am working on MemProxy some. Mainly, I am trying to implement more of the Cache-Control header's many options. The one that has me a bit perplexed s-maxage. Particularly when combined with...
Velocity Conference Roundup
As I said before, I was invited to be on a panel at Velocity Conference. I was delighted to go. I had never been to San Francisco. I have been to Portland and Santa Clara several times. The pa...
Did you know I am going to be at Velocity?
Well, neither did I until today. HA! Velocity is a new O'Reilly conference dedicated to "Optimizing Web Performance and Scalability". It starts next Monday. Yesterday I was contacted by Adam Jaco...