Xavier Perez Blog

Convention over configuration

Ok, we are sure that convention over configuration it’s the best practice to reduce time, gaining simplicity, and increasing its readibility. But, what moore ? I have been working with ORM’s that offers simplicity and also scalability, giving a lot of tools and making easy a complex queries. But… I need more… Why I must to tell the ORM all the tables I use ? Why I must to tell...

How Zend Server can improve high foot print frameworks

Zend Server (and also Zend Server Comunity Edition), comes with own APC, cache and some more improvements all together, and also two servers: Apache with php as cgi, and a lighthttpd, allowing to server static pages and dinamyc pages separatelly, and decreasing foot print in almost 300%. Frameworks as Zend, with a foot print of 12MB RAM, takes only 4MB RAM served with Zend Server, allowing the system...

Best PHP framework ?

Which is the best PHP framwework to develop your applications ? There are a lot of frameworks out there that can do your requeriments without problems, but you must to make another important questions: How many visitors are expected to have your site ? How much important it’s the quick development versus maintainability ? How many developers will work on it ? What kind of helpers and custom...

PHP Scalability – Part2

Apache servers with PHP as a module, expends a lot of memory and resources on each process, and it’s not intended to serve static pages. Also, PHP cache, as memcached, cacheLite, and other cache systems can be an important aid to lighten apache process, but still are huge. Here comes APC, an opcode cache, that can be one of the best part of my own tests, achieving a 100% better performance on...