I’ve been doing a lot of work with curl_multi in PHP lately because it just makes sense to do as much work in parallel as possible (in most cases). I’ll be writing up my experiences with curl_multi later.
So, yesterday’s announcement by the Facebook development team about fql.multiquery couldn’t have come at a better time for [...]
Read the full article → June 17, 2009Obviously, I’m a big fan of the performance increases that can be achieved by using memcache. Another potential cache-based tool for enhancing your server-side PHP code is to use an opcode compiler and caching tool such as APC.
In addition to being a fantastic piece of technology by itself, APC also provides meaningful tuning options and [...]
Read the full article → June 11, 2009