Web application design

[debonair]

I am looking for some resources on scalable web application design, I want to learn best practices, preferably by going through
various tutorials. The problem with many devs, myself included is that we jump straight into coding without properly thinking about
the potential bottlenecks in our designs.

I have mostly been using PHP MySQL and memcached, and would like to know more about how I could incorporate things message queues, reverse proxies like varnish and NoSQL databases into my applications to make them faster and more scalable.

A meetup around Cape Town discussing this would be awsome.

 

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I am looking for some resources on scalable web application design, I want to learn best practices, preferably by going through
various tutorials. The problem with many devs, myself included is that we jump straight into coding without properly thinking about
the potential bottlenecks in our designs.

I have mostly been using PHP MySQL and memcached, and would like to know more about how I could incorporate things message queues, reverse proxies like varnish and NoSQL databases into my applications to make them faster and more scalable.

A meetup around Cape Town discussing this would be awsome.

I've found that selecting a good, and the right PHP framework for the project at hand, and following it's best practices and coding standards guidelines, will allow for scalability. Loosely coupled MVC frameworks, with caching features provide fair to great performance. Doing good preparation and compiling proper UML and development diagrams beforehand will allow you to identify most hurdles and obstacles, and avoid coding into corners.