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• Best practice designs • Distributed data caches with Redis and Memcached • Doing work in the background with queues • Http caching and a reverse proxy with Varnish • Using the right tool for the job • Tools of the trade • Xdebug + WebGrind • XHProf + XHProf GUI • AppDynamics • Google PageSpeed • Architecture not applications
the http response should be queued • Sending notifications + posting to social accounts • Analytics + Instrumentation • Updating profiles and discovering friends from social accounts • Consuming web services like Twitter Streaming API
favorite framework • Disable features you are not using (I18N, Security, etc) • Always use a data cache like Memcached/Redis • Enable caching features for views and database result sets • Always use a HTTP cache like Varnish
+ Nginx • Stay up to date with your framework + dependencies (using Composer) • Optimize your session store to use signed cookies or database with caching • Cache your database and web service access with Memcache or Redis • Do blocking work in the background with queues and tasks using Resque • Use HTTP caching and a reverse proxy cache like Varnish • Profile code with Xdebug + Webgrind and monitor production performance