APC is a performance-enhancing extension. It should not be confused with a magic pill, although having it around does provide a positive impact on performance! If configured incorrectly, APC can cause unexpected behaviour, however when implemented optimally APC can be a useful weapon in your arsenal. In this post we will examine APC's capabilities and it's application both as an opcode cache and in its less common usage as a data cache.
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Speaker: Ilia Alshanetsky
APC and Memcache both provide effective mechanism for caching data within PHP applications to improve performance and latency. This talk will cover when to use both of these tools to get the most of your apps and which workflows better suit each tool.
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Because we encounter PHP more and more in the enterprise market, the performance demands of websites we build are becoming ever more challenging. The usefulness of caching is often underestimated by developers (myself included). When using a lightweight framework like Code Igniter it is easy to assume caching is not needed or not necessary; still there are websites where performance optimization is needed and it is important to think about the performance and caching strategy beforehand. When writing the technical specifications for a high performance website the developer needs to be able to make the best choice for optimization.
19th - 20th September 2013
