PHP and MySQL
Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)
W. Jason Gilmore (Paperback) Apress 2006-01-26
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Beginning PHP Not Beginning Programming
[Updated for Second Edition] A beginning PHP book, not a beginning programming book. The subtitle, 'From Novice to Professional', can be a tad misleading for the novice coder. A beginning programming book covers a lot of material that this book assumes the reader already understands. Many... -
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I'm not new to programming or web programming, but I was new to PHP. This book is much better as a reference than an intro to PHP, however, even there it has its limitations. I bought this book, read the first 5 chapters (130 pages), and then stopped reading it because I was learning too slowly...
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The Easy API: Lessons Learned Scaling an API
Asking the simple question to API maintainers of how scalable is your API seems to conjure some awkward pauses. The Easy API recently discovered how well equipped we were to handle a massive influx of requests to our system. Quickly it became evident that the system wasn’t able to handle over a million requests a month, and failed under heavy load. This article discusses programming, servers, and monitoring changes that helped bring The Easy API back online and into the next level. The techniques discussed played a critical role in helping The Easy API scale to over a million requests a month and growing rapidly.
The beginning of 2011 marked a major milestone for The Easy API. It was one year since its inception and it was picking up a lot of users and requests. The original application was built on top of the CakePHP framework and the server was in Rackspace’s cloud (Mosso). During the month of December we picked up one of the largest SEO companies in the world, which started to use the services. When their product began to take shape and they began using the system more the server began to fail under the load. In the short term we decided that it would be best to upgrade the server and make the following changes.
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