Scaling PHP Applications

I slept infront of my laptop for a year while scaling Twitpic, rolling over to restart Apache at 2am before drifting back to sleep, but when youre a startup- you do what you have to do. What if your didnt have any single points of failure? Imagine if scaling wasnt frustrating and you could get back to what you do best- shipping code? Im going to teach you how to scale PHP Stop playing sysadmin and get back to coding You didnt sign up to put out fires and figuring out how to scale MySQL isnt exactly going to ship features any faster. You know that learning the intricaces of my.cnf is a waste of time, but you dont have another choice. In the book, youll get a crash-course on every important tuning option, why it matters, and a quick formula to figure out the perfectsettings for your hardware. Bliss. Apache is crying itself to sleep everynight Youve heard alot about Nginx and horizontal scaling, and therere thousands of tutorials out there, but the quality ranges from abysmal to «this must be a joke», and when you finally find a good one, its usually for Rails. I know what its like to scramble around, reading bad advice on StackOverflow, copy-and-pasting config files from some message board hope that one of them finally works... pulling at your hair, swearing at the screen.