We've all heard about PHP in high volume applications like Yahoo, Facebook, and Wikipedia, etc. but how many of us really know what it's like to run "consumer grade" websites.  To answer that question, we asked Jack Steadman, Manager of Architectural Development at Smarter Travel Media to share his experiences running high volume PHP.  Smarter Travel Media LLC operates two high-traffic PHP sites, SmarterTravel.com and BookingBuddy.com, which together serve millions of page views per week. During his presentation, Jack discussed many of the design decisions that were made to maximize performance as traffic scales upward.

We had over 70 people attend Jack's session, if you weren't one of them you can Listen Now! (slides:  bostonphp20080507 152.91 Kb)