Developer Meetup: HHVM and WordPress

What is HHVM and how can it help increase the speed of your WordPress site by up to ten times? We'll walk through a brief history of HHVM, where it's being used and how you can use it right now. We'll discuss the benefits, common problems, some issues that have been found with popular WordPress plugins and when you may not want to use it. We'll explore the differences between using (different versions of) PHP and HHVM on your server and benchmark those differences.

About the presenter:

Rich is the WordPress developer for the University of British Columbia. Originally from Manchester, England he moved to Canada in April 2013 and regards doing so as the best decision he’s ever made. WordPress’ing professionally since 2008 and a user since 2006, he’s serious about semantic, forward-thinking code and, of course, bacon. He’s passionate about making developers lives easier. He’s written articles about workflows, given talks about deployment strategies and delivered workshops centered on how teams can work together more effectively. He swears a lot. And hates writing in the third person.