On his blog, Stas Malyshev (Core Contributor to PHP and Zend Employee) has posted a list of PHP Performance tips that he wants novices to know about. He realized that while he had previously panned a post by Google about PHP Performance of having lots of incorrect or misleading information, but that he never gave good substitute advice himself.

In honor of the MySQL Conference happening this week, we are happy to present the latest episode of The ZendCon Sessions podcast that is all about MySQL! This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Jay Pipes giving his tutorial: “SQL Query Tuning: The Legend of Drunken Query Master”

Zend Platform on IBM I provides many benefits including monitoring and advanced debugging. One of the many key features of Zend Platform is caching. In a nutshell, Zend Platform caches PHP scripts and content in a byte-code format to improve performance. This is an extremely useful feature, especially when you start exploring frameworks like Zend Framework or Cake. Zend Platform has many dials and controls which affect caching on the IBM i. We are going to explore how a few of them work and shed some light on their purpose.

By way of my favourite Bulgarian / Canadian / American / Web Ninja Stoyan Stefanov, and Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance Team I’ve been studying the fine work found in their best practises guide for speeding up websites. As a recluse who prefers hiding behind servers rather than dancing around your web browser’s canvas, I was intrigued with their server side recommendations — however sparse they may be. In particular, flushing generated head content early to speed up overall page delivery and rendering time was a technique new to me.

Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. I hope you enjoy today’s session as we listen to Eli White present “High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques”.

p. Shahar Evron posted his opinions on “Premature Optimization and The Web” on his blog. Shahar reminds us of the famous quote by from Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, and then goes on the explain it’s special relevance to web development.

PHP is the market-leading dynamic language for producing modern Web applications. Its popularity for building content management and e-commerce systems stems from its portability, ease of use, and wide support for accessing database and enterprise data sources. IBM and Zend Technologies have partnered to deliver Zend Core for IBM®, which is the industry’s only certified and fully supported PHP development and production environment for IBM data servers.

Oracle Developers Network has posted a great article on “Improve PHP Performance by Caching Database Results”. Give me a page view and I’ll tell you more. (Click the little [more] button)