Last week was held in Paris the second Symfony Live conference. Over 2 days, 350 (!!!) participants listened to 20 sessions; covering different subjects like usage of Symfony events, introduction to GIT and the first presentation/release of Symfony 2. It was a great gathering of the framework users but also of PHP and Open Source [ Read More → ]
During the time when we were building the server environment for a new version of one of our community pages, we tested many different server applications and architectures. One thing which brought us a big speed and efficiency improvement was the combination of Nginx, Memcached and PHP-FPM which we are using and which I’m going [ Read More → ]
For one of our web sites we programmed a server that provides us with information about the whole friendship network on this site: Who is friends with who, six degrees of separation information, etc. Back in 2007, we wrote that server in C and since we started using it, it was running with absolute reliability.
Suddenly [ Read More → ]
