Rasmus
08/08/08 - Officially calling of support for PHP 4. There just aren't enough developers to support 3 branches of PHP.
Performance:
- For Yahoo, 1000s of hits per second are hack attacks
- PHP is rarely the bottleneck
- 80%-90% of performance is in the front end
- Usability and Perception
- http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Uses an application called Siege to do backend testing. Check out LiveHTTP settings, copy cookie string:
siege -h "Cookie: ..."
Will perfom numerous tests on the system to emulate having multiple users at once.
