Posts tagged ‘production’

Preface

In November 2008 I’ve got a nice project, that resulted in a complex search engine, that specializes in clothing. I can’t give the link now, but will do when site officially launches. Key features of such service are:

  • Large number of users, which search with various parameters, rate items, leave comments, create articles etc.
  • Large database, that is updated frequently

Sure, the site is running on a dedicated server, sure I use caching, but optimal DB is a key to success.

Continue reading ‘Building high-loaded portal – InnoDB vs MyISAM’ »

Posted by Konstantin Mirin on May 20, 2009 at 09:00 under DB Design, Databases, MySQL.
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Yesterday I’ve read a post on The Developer’s Day blog. Then tested this thing in Yii. There is a jQuery in my application, so I created test controller and test action, that only outputted “Hello, world” and called it from the firebug console Continue reading ‘Speeding up Yii or why should you use DB sessions’ »

Posted by Konstantin Mirin on March 5, 2009 at 06:02 under Databases, PHP, Yii.
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Yii is a great framework. It gives excellent built-in functionality, but, from my experience, is quite sensitive to the server configuration. Mostly because it relies on the newest technologies.

So here is a list of things to check when you experience strange things Continue reading ‘Yii framework – tips when going production’ »

Posted by Konstantin Mirin on February 20, 2009 at 09:17 under Frameworks, PHP, Yii.
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