Slides for a presentation I gave on May 4, 2011 at the GTA PHP user's group (http://meetup.gtaphp.org) about components for modern PHP application stacks

1. Modern Application Stacks Chris Hartjes GTA PHP User's Group May 3, 2011

4. NO group-think

5. NO fixation on the sexy-shiny

6. LAMP is dead LONG LIVE LAMP Why do people hate LAMP so much?

8. Apache

9. MySQL

10. PHP

12. Apache | Nginx | Lighttpd | IIS

13. MySQL | Postgres | SQL Server | Mongo | Couchdb

14. PHP + Javascript

15. The cool kids might say otherwise... LAMP is good enough for YOU Worry about PSS (Precious Snowflake Syndrome)

17. TOY vs. BUSINESS VALUE

19. Something that persists data

20. Some that routes your request

21. Something that displays the response

23. Share-nothing

24. 3 rd party integration

26. Lighttpd?

27. Nginx?

28. IIS? IT DOES NOT MATTER

31. Ability to pass through dynamic requests

32. Compressing data before serving

34. Nginx + Lighttpd require PHP configuration

35. New tools required for monitoring FCGI

37. Apache + Nginx works too!

39. Clustered or not-clustered? DEPENDS ON THE DATA

41. Heavy reads?

42. Heavy writes?

43. STEP 1: FIGURE OUT RELATIONSHIPS STEP 2: FIGURE OUT USAGE PATTERNS STEP 3: PROFIT?

45. Document?

46. Relational?

48. Make great key-value stores (ala Reddit)

49. MySQL will never page you at 3 AM due to obscure replication bug

50. UNSEXY GETS THE JOB DONE

51. http://teddziuba.com/2010/03/i-cant-wait-for-nosql-to-die.html You Are Not Google “ The sooner your company admits this, the sooner you can get down to some real work. Developing the app for Google-sized scale is a waste of your time, plus, there is no way you will get it right. Absolutely none. It's not that you're not smart enough, it's that you do not have the experience to know what problems you will see at scale.”

52. STFU and Tell Us!

53. SOMETHING THAT ROUTES YOUR REQUEST ROUTING IS NOT SEXY

55. Web server rewrite rules for the hardcore

56. Front controller or page controller

58. System should allow reuse of URLs

59. SOMETHING THAT DISPLAYS THE RESPONSE TEMPLATING SYSTEMS ARE NOT SEXY

61. Designers can learn PHP too!

62. Careful about use of custom tags

63. PHP is a TEMPLATING LANGUAGE

64. STFU And Tell Us! Picking a templating “language” is simply yak shaving

65. STFU And Tell Us! What stack you use actually matters very little

67. User-space caching

69. Membase (Memcache + persistence)

70. Redis (Memcache compatible)

71. TO THE CLOUD!

76. Count on components disappearing

77. Application architecture matters!

80. Comments?

81. Complaints http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard