Arne shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including:

• What PHP-FPM is
• What differentiates PHP-FPM from Apache/mod_php?
• NGINX's different pool types (dynamic, static, and ondemand)
• How to configure PHP-FPM for high-performance and throughput
• Using multiple PHP-FPM pools in the same application?
• Plus loads more!

Links

• Slides: Optimizing PHP-FPM for Production (PDF)
• Tideways blog: An Introduction to PHP-FPM Tuning
• PHP-FPM
• Configuring PHP-FPM in PHP
• Thread Pools in NGINX Boost Performance 9x
• Apache2 and php fpm performance optimization — Step-by-step guide
• thePHP.cc

Guests: Arne Blankerts

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