How Flipkart scales PHP -- Tips & tricks

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Dharmaram College, Bengaluru

PHP is today the world’s most popular open source web development language. It is used by millions of websites, most often via applications like WordPress and Drupal. Deploying a PHP website is straightforward and supported by nearly every web hosting provider.

There are limits to how much load a single web server can take though. For your website to scale, you will sooner or later need to a transition to a multi-server deployment, and this can be hard. It requires thinking about web development in entirely new ways.

The exciting new world of cloud computing promises to make all this much better. “Cloud computing” is an umbrella term for a range of tools and techniques that make scalability possible. Scaling PHP in the Cloud is a one day conference on what it takes to make the leap from single server to multi-server deployments, and of making sense of the new world beyond.

Hashtag: #phpcloud

Sessions are for 45 minutes each (30 talking + 15 Q&A). If you’d like to do a smaller session, please indicate so in the description.

To attend this event, buy your ticket from http://phpcloud.doattend.com/

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Submitted Jun 10, 2011

Section: Development Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

We would like to share some of the learnings from scaling PHP to millions of requests per day at Flipkart.com

How do you make your PHP webapp horizontally scalable?
How do you ensure performance at scale?

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Flipkart.com is one of India’s top 100 websites in terms of traffic. We’ve learnt many scalability tricks while getting here. Learnings that we believe could be interesting to many others.