PHP-Queue Case Study: IslamicEvents.sg

Case study on how I optimised the Facebook publishing of prayer reminders for IslamicEvents.sg

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1. PHPQueue in Action Case Study: IslamicEvents.sg Tuesday, 29 January, 13
2. Michael Cheng Senior Software Engineer, mig33 http://twitter.com/coderkungfu http://github.com/miccheng Tuesday, 29 January, 13
3. Problem • Daily prayer reminders via Facebook. • Facebook publishing is failing. • Cron Jobs & messy MySQL gymnastics. • Unable to reach audience fully. Tuesday, 29 January, 13
4. Solution • Implement a queuing system that can be scaled onto multiple servers. • Use Beanstalkd & PHPQueue. • Batch processing using Facebook's batch request API. Tuesday, 29 January, 13
5. PHP-Queue https://github.com/miccheng/php-queue https://packagist.org/packages/coderkungfu/php-queue Tuesday, 29 January, 13
6. Result • Increase reach by 80%. • Facebook Page Likes increased from 12,000 to 15,000 in a few weeks. • Zero maintenance. • Git deployment using Bitbucket. Tuesday, 29 January, 13
7. Lessons Learnt • Facebook's Batch Request API does not work as advertised. • Continuous Deployment is a god-sent. • Continuous Integration is important, even in small projects. Tuesday, 29 January, 13