A couple of good Zend Framework articles

p. Ok, ZendCon is over and I’m back to surfing for things you will find interesting. Two articles posted that I didn’t cover but feel they are content rich enough to mention are “Create a productivity package with the Zend Framework V1.5 and Google Apps” and “How We Built a Web Hosting Infrastructure on EC2″. Click on in and I’ll give you details and links.

h3. “Create a productivity package with the Zend Framework V1.5 and Google Apps”:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-php-zend-google-pt1.html

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p. John Mertic, Software Engineer, SugarCRM, writes an excellent 3 part, highly code laden article.

bq. This series is intended for PHP developers looking to take advantage of the many features of the Zend Framework and integrate with various Google Apps.

We will build an application using new Zend Framework V1.5 features that make use of some powerful Google applications.

p. IBM’s developerWorks articles are always well written and informative and this series does not disappoint.

h3. “How We Built a Web Hosting Infrastructure on EC2″:http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2008/07/19/web-hosting-on-ec2/

p. Unlike the article series above, this is a high-level article. The author, Mike Brittain, gives an architectural overview of how he lead a project at heavy.com that was built on Amazon’s EC2, CentOS, MySQL and Zend Framework.

p. If you are looking for a “HOW TO” article on EC2, this isn’t it. The author discusses the big picture and a lot of the “WHY” but don’t expect a tutorial on HOW.

bq. We set out to build a fairly standard LAMP hosting infrastructure where we could easily and quickly add additional capacity. In fact, we can add new servers to our production pool in under 20 minutes, from the time we call the “run instance” API at EC2, to the time when public traffic begins hitting the new server. This includes machine startup time, adding custom server config files and cron jobs, rolling out application code, running smoke tests, and adding the machine to public DNS.

p. If you’ve been considering EC2 for hosting your application, this is a must read article.