Slides from my talk at WordCamp Sheffield, on looking at technology other than Apache, MySQL, PHP. From Nginx to running PHP through HipHop Virtual Machine, to Memcache and Elasticsearch there is so much more to it than a dull LAMP stack.

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LAMPGoing Beyond... ...Then a bit further

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LAMP
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP

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L[AMP]
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP

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WIMP
Windows
IIS
MySQL
PHP
REALLY!!!
OMG You like Serious init!
CRAZY??

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[AMP]
“Use the best tool for the job...
...Not just the most popular”
- almost certainly an engineer

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[AMP]
“You don’t dig latrines with a swiss army knife”

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ANGINX HTTP and Proxy
Server

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AApache is like Microsoft Word, it has a million options but you only need six. Nginx
does those six things, and it does five of them 50 times faster than Apache.
- Chris Lea (https://chrislea.com/)

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MMaria DB & Percona
Server

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PHipHop Virtual Machine
(HHVM)

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Key value stores
Memcached and Redis (Redis Cloud)

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Key : Value
Tim : Geeky

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Queue Management
Beanstalkd & Gearman
(Amazon SQS)

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1. WordPress sends job to queue
2. Job Server (Beanstalk, Gearman) Holds in a
queue
3. Worker picks job from the queue and
completes it
2.
3.
1.
QUEUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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Caching reverse proxies
Varnish
(CloudFront, CloudFlare)

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PROXY
CACHE
HTTP SERVER
(ORIGIN)
PROXY CACHING

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VARNISH
NGINX
(ORIGIN)
PROXY CACHING OVER SSL WITH VARNISH
NGINX
SSL END
POINT

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Search Engines
SOLR & Elastic Search
(Bonsai, Swiftype)

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Getting Started is Easy
Use a third party service
Cheap VPS costs <£5 a month - http://lowendbox.com/
Vagrant is free!

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TheEnd!
Thanks for listening and don’t forget to visit...
Slides: https://timnash.co.uk/wordcamp-sheffield2014/