Archive for the 'OSL' Category

Scalable PHP with APC, memcached and LVS (Part 2)

Friday, April 14th, 2006

In part 1 of this post I talked about some of the challenges we encountered when trying to scale a LAMP application. It’s pretty much what you’d read on danga’s memcached site, just dumbed down.
So after some discussion, caffeine and Googling, you’ll probably end up knowing you’ll need:

Memcached!
An internal cache to speed up and […]

AMO v2

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

The public rewrite of AMO was released today.
Fixed in this release:

Stuff
More stuff
Scalability
Other stuff

No, but seriously, you might find that your bookmarks are a little off, or _____. If so, find us on irc in #umo@irc.mozilla.org and let us know — we aren’t at the “file a bug if it’s broke” stage yet.
Thanks to […]

Scalable PHP with phpa, memcached and LVS (Part 1)

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

One of the major pitfalls of the PHP LAMP stack is that run-time compilation does not scale very well. An experienced developer would lament over PHP bloat and the other downfalls that come with the ease and convenience of using a scripting language as the foundation for your application.
Over the last month or so, […]