interconphp 2014 - scaling php

Scaling PHP

Lucas Arrudalucas@ciandt.com

@lunascarruda

Handrus Nogueirahandrus@taller.net.br

@handrus

Lucas Arruda

Software Architect @ CI&T

Open-Source enthusiast

~10 yrs on the road

Based on Campinas-SP

Zend Certified Engineer PHP 5.3

Drupaler for 4 yrs

Google Cloud Platform Qualified Dev.

Handrus

Software Architect / Dev @ Taller

Open-Source and Agile

~10 yrs on the road

Based on Bauru-SP/Florianópolis-SC

Drupaler for 3 yrs

The Basics

Use the latest PHP stable version

Use the latest PHP stable version

Disable unnecessary PHP extensions and web-server modules

● PHP extensions consume memory heap

● Some badly written can cause memory leaks

● The same applies for web-server modules

● Disable if you don’t need them!

Fine tune your php.ini!

● memory_limit

memory_get_usage() / memory_get_peak_usage()

● realpath_cache_size

realpath_cache_get()

● realpath_cache_ttl

Max execution per thread - will affect memory usage!

mod_phpvs.

FastCGIvs.

PHP-FPM

ob_flush()flush()

?

PHP ACCELERATORS

Alternative PHP Cache (APC)

Zend OPcache

XCache

APC OPcache XCache

Zephir

Scaling PHPHorizontally

Does your app use session data?

No: you’re good to go!

Yes: then you’ll need to manage this data across multiple servers.

Sharing session data

Fault tolerantNo bottleneckCheaper

buut… it needs architecure changes!

Persistent load balancing

Sharing session data

PHP Session Management

Persistent load balacing

Single point of failureBottleneckExpensive

Options

Shared file-systemDatabaseMemcache / Redis

session.name

session.save_handler

session.save_path

Sharing session data

Handlers

filesusermemcache

Avoid database specific queries.

Good libraries can help (Doctrine FTW!)

If not possible Document like any Technical Debt!

And choose wellyour database!!

● MySQL● MariaDB● PerconaDB

Version?!

How dependent of your actual environment are you?

timezonepaths connection stringlimits

timeouts

Number of triesAPI Keys

Caching Mechanisms

APCfor caching user data

Memcachefor key/value storage (URI/HTML?)

tmpfs/ramfsfor all file-based caching

Reverse proxying

Nginx Varnish

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