Wordpress -> Middleman

Slides from my recent talk at Static Web Tech in San Francisco.

Transcript

1. wordpress -> middleman lessons learned in the 2-years since migrating
2. About James · Front-end Dev · Focused on ZURB Foundation · Author, Blogger, vLogger
3. How do you survive the Hacker News Front Page?
4. Wordpress usually won't cut it
5. Most Heroku rails apps die
6. We added more dyno's! It's back up!
7. How do you survive as a blogger · 6,000 users within about an hour · If they stayed a minute on average · 100 concurrent users minimum · Large spike at the start tapering off
8. The tests · Started with ab (Apache Bench)1 · Static variant against an optimized wp- supercache enabled Wordpress site, same content · Traded Apache for Nginx, started optimizing · RackSpace 512mb Ubuntu based server 1 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html
9. The results · Even simple php scripts ran 6 - 12x slower than a static counterpart · Approximately the same ratio for the number of concurrent connections with minimal slowdown
10. Static Site Generators
11. Octopress · complicated themes with a lot of partial granularity · themes were not great, had an Octopress look
12. Middleman · Very flexible · Ruby based · Sprockets Asset Pipeline · Worked great with ZURB Foundation · Could create anything you want fast
13. commit 020f4159ba448412fadc461c097dc637c18d85f4 Author: James Stone <jamesmanofstone@gmail.com> Date: Sat Nov 23 21:02:54 2013 +0100 initial commit
14. James Stone @JAMESSTONEco james@jamesstone.com