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Interview: With Prezi, code is sexy - interview with Facebook engineer Brian Shire at blog.prezi.com, 08.29.2009

An online interview I did with Prezi.com after some talks I did in Tokyo, Japan about APC.

There was quite a buzz on Twitter about a prezi a few weeks ago, that was created by Brian Shire, and presented in Tokyo at this year’s annual PHP Conference. Shire, who works as an engineer at Facebook in California, says he really likes to create relations and deep analysis in Prezi. In his approach Prezi is a great tool if you want to show a massive amount of data and show an eye popping presentation in one.

Continuing our interview series, we present a short Q&A below with Brian, who kindly took time to answer our questions and explain his professional view on how to create a good prezi.

Book: Quality Assurance in PHP Projects: Performance Testing, (currently in progress)

I am currently working on a case study for a book on “Quality Assurance in PHP Projects”, the book will be published in both English and German:

Incorrect application functionality is a detriment to any project, but poor performance and scalability can often lead to end-user dissatisfaction and exorbitant hardware expenses.

In the case of modern web application, expectations have made it necessary to provide responses within as little as 100 to 500 milliseconds. This puts a tremendous burden on not only achieving excellent performance, but maintaining consistent performance as code changes and new features are added….(more)

Article: Optimizing with APC in C7Y, 05.27.2008

An article I wrote for C7Y regarding APC that followed much of the material I present during my talks.

Opcode caches save energy, expenses, improve overall user experience on web sites, and it’s often one of the simplest optimizations to implement. This article will explain the basics of installing, configuring, and tuning an opcode cache for PHP, the Alternative PHP Cache (APC).

Interview: Brian Shire (Facebook) on What’s the Open Web? And Why Open Web and Open Source Technologies Matter, Open Web Vancouver 2008, 04.11.2008

A quick Q&A I did for the Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference:

What’s the Open Web? We have invited Brian Shire (Facebook’s PHP Internals Tech Lead) - who will talk about ‘Inside Alternative PHP Cache (APC) - Serving Millions of Facebookers’ at the Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference - for some insight. …(more)