Alistair is the Technical Team Lead at Ibuildings UK and has been developing software with PHP and other technologies since 2000. He has helped many enterprise clients from the UK and Europe realise complex software solutions. As an advocate of Open Source Software Alistair has contributed to a number of projects, more recently Magento Ecommerce Platform. Alistair has a keen interest in development processes and using additional technology to support PHP development.

In his spare time you will find him tinkering with new technology, tweeting @alistairstead and blogging at www.designdisclosure.com.

Varnish Your PHP application, Make It Fly!

In his technical presentation Alistair will cover the use of Varnish reverse proxy cache to get the ultimate speed from your php application. With a focus on Magento which has had its performance questioned, he will show how Varnish can help you improve the performance of your application.

He will look at the setup required to use Varnish to cache application pages and also explore some of the advanced features provided by Varnish such as load balancing and Edge Side Includes ESI. Alistair will explore the things you should consider to make your application compatible with Varnish. Based on benchmarked figures he will show how Varnish can allow you to serve millions of hits an hour from a very small cluster of servers. Showing how php applications can be scaled to host even the biggest and most traffic heavy applications.

http://blip.tv/phpnw/phpnw11-alistair-stead-varnish-your-php-application-make-it-fly-5859431

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