PHP London September 2013

PHP London is a non-profit group to promote knowledge sharing and best practice amongst PHP developers and web development and business professionals in London. The main product right now is a regular PHP meetup, basically a monthly PHP PubCon. In order to attend all you need is an interest in PHP.

Agenda:

7:00-8:00 - informal drinks and chat

8:00-8:05 - welcome by executive committee & any group announcements

8:05-9:00 - talk(s):

Title: Scaling with PHP
By: Michel Bartz
About: Learnings from scaling PHP to 18 million users per day serving over 100 million pages. From technology choices (Sphinx, Redis, Memcached, Apache vs nginx), to structuring your application for scaling and how to extract the most out of PHP.

Michel has a Bsc in Software Engineering as well as a Bsc in Communication and Internet Marketing, and over six years of experience in very challenging industries such as e-commerce, mobile applications, digital signage, video streaming and many more, as a developer, web architect and manager, scaling websites cumulating over 5 billion page views per month. You can find him on Twitter @MichelBartz (http://twitter.com/MichelBartz) or Github (https://github.com/Mikushi).
If you are interested in giving a talk, or want to request one, please contact us: contact@phplondon.org

9:00 onwards - more drinks and chat at the Fox pub.