I gave a variation on my WordCamp Sheffield Talk at Manchester WordPress User Group, this time concentrating more on how to make things go a bit faster, the slide deck is similar but not identical to the WordCamp Sheffield deck which also includes links to lot of the bits I spoke about. I dwelled a bit more on Facebook Hack language this time with a sample usage for WordPress, as well as looking at Gearman in a little more detail.
Note the code examples were for illustrative purposes and should not be used on production servers
The main things we covered were:
- Using Nginx as a Proxy Server or a HTTP Server
- HHVM and Hack
- Memcache and Redis as key value storage
- Transients and Object Caching in WordPress
- Fragment and Full page caching
- Why Caching will always bite you, but you still should do it
- Using the right tool for the job
- Working with Queues
- Just for fun a couple of examples of Async loading theme templates, both with HACK and with Gearman