Way of the Future - Speaker Deck

Way of the Future

by Jason Cosper

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I'm Jason Cosper I work at WP Engine

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I created Hipster Ipsum I organize the Bakersfield WordPress Meetup I maintain the Force Strong Passwords plugin

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@boogah

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When I gave this talk five months ago...

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I was pushing HHVM Hard

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The numbers were compelling WordPress 4.1.x with 20 concurrent users. • Requests per second • PHP 5.5: 256 • PHP 7: 627 • HHVM 3.7: 666 • Latency • PHP 5.5: 78 milliseconds • PHP 7: 32 milliseconds • HHVM 3.7: 30 milliseconds

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PHP adoption rates were depressing • PHP 5.3 — 41.4% • Released: June 30, 2009 • End of Life: August 14, 2014 • PHP 5.4 — 30.1% • Released: March 1, 2012 • End of Life: September 12, 2015 • PHP 5.5 — 9.3% • Released: June 20, 2013 • End of Life: June 20, 2016 • PHP 5.6 — 1.5% • Released: August 28, 2014 • End of Life: August 28, 2017

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And hosts were announcing HHVM support • WP Engine • DreamHost • Pagely • SiteGround • Kinsta • Etc.

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Legacy PHP bad

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But I was being myopic

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Don't get me wrong HHVM is still fast

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But PHP is PHP

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PHP 7 is PHP on steroids

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Let's take a look at some numbers boogah.org/55vs7

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PHP 5.5 vs. PHP 7 • WordPress (4.3.1) • PHP 7 was 2.6 times faster than PHP 5.5 • WordPress (4.3.1) + WooCommerce (2.4.8) • PHP 7 was 1.4 times faster than PHP 5.5 • WordPress (4.3.1) + bbPress (2.5.8) • PHP 7 was 6.6 times faster than PHP 5.5 • WordPress (4.3.1) + BuddyPress (2.3.4) • PHP 7 was 4.7 times faster than PHP 5.5

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All these numbers are pretty awesome

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However, 67.9% of all PHP sites are currently powered by versions that should be considered dead

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They have ceased to be

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Why should anyone give a !?

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Nobody builds sites for the past You build them for the future

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The futch

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vagrantup.com

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Vagrant creates & configures virtual development environments

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This means less yak shaving & more working

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Varying Vagrant Vagrants is the industry standard for WordPress development

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There is another

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It does PHP 7 & HHVM And it was made for WordPress development

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HGV github.com/wpengine/hgv

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Built by WP Engine for our Mercury platform

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No matter where you host your site, you can use HGV to test your code

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HGV • Built with members of the 10up team • Work on your code under PHP 5.5, PHP 7 & HHVM at the same time • Provision multiple sites using YML ﬁles • Debugging & benchmarking tools • Xdebug • XHProf • Siege • query-monitor • debug-objects • debug-bar

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Installing HGV is easyish

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Prerequisites • Git • VirtualBox or VMware • Vagrant • The Vagrant Ghost plugin boogah.org/hgv-prereq ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" brew install git brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask brew cask install vagrant brew cask install virtualbox vagrant plugin install vagrant-ghost

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Install cd ~ mkdir vagrant cd vagrant git clone --recursive https://github.com/wpengine/hgv.git cd hgv vagrant up

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While HGV installs, make yourself a drink It should only take about 30 minutes

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Get to work • Local ﬁle access • Use your favorite text editor! • [HGV_dir]/hgv_data/sites/[sitename]/ • [HGV_dir]/hgv_data/sites/[sitename]/wp-content/[plugins|themes]/ • SSH • vagrant ssh • phpMyAdmin • admin.hgv.test/phpmyadmin/

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Just import your site and see what breaks

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PHP 7 & WordPress boogah.org/php7wp

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Switching your environment is a piece of cake

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Force your site to PHP 7 vagrant ssh sudo nano -w /etc/nginx/conf.d/www-[sitename].conf

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Force your site to PHP 7 Change this: cache.php.example.test php; php.example.test php; To this: cache.php.example.test php7; php.example.test php7; Save your changes!