The "it works on my machine" mentality has resulted in numerous face palm moments. This is even more painful when a your app is under heavy load due to a marketing campaign. With some minimal code changes and some smart utilities, you can maximize your scalability and performance. Keywords: Varnish, PHP-FPM, Nginx, APC, CDN, Gearman, Memcached and a proper server setup. I'll show you how you can make a slow app with a crappy code base go mighty fast on one and even multiple servers. The focus of this talk is to cure first and eventually learn and prevent.

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This year at the Dutch PHP Conference, we managed to capture some of our speakers on camera, and asked them about their talks and about the event itself. Read on for the video interview we did with Thijs Feryn - you can also get the audio from his talk PHP Through the Eyes of a Hoster which was published here on techPortal recently.

If you'd like to listen to more of the recordings from the Dutch PHP Conference 2010, you can check out this full list with loads of great sessions already posted and more to come.