Ben May: Working with massive WordPress sites, clients and enterprise

Slow websites are bad and as websites grow in traffic, slow websites get slower. It’s often a wise move to invest a small amount of time in the early stages of a site’s life to think about performance and scaling. How you can work with larger sites when it comes to caching, file management (version control), SQL performance and front-end optimisation.

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1. Working with massive WordPress sites, clients and enterprise Ben May benmay.org @benjmay
2. Who am I & What do I do
3. I am not an expert (ProTip: don’t listen to what I say)
4. What am I good at?
5. 1% 5% 10% 10% 30% 45% Backend Dev Sysadmin Design (Critic) Frontend Dev Project Manager Designer (Pixel Pusher) If I was a pie chart
7. What is “enterprise” (to me)?
8. 2 types of enterprise 1. Corporate enterprise 2. Enterprise performance
9. The road to happiness 1. Servers and networks 2. Server side & code caching 3. Plugins or DIY? 4. Themes 5. ? 6. Profit
10. Firstly, how I do it 1. Batcache (advanced-cache.php) 2. APC or Memcached (object-cache.php) 3. Git on Beanstalk w/ auto deployments 4. Mark Jaquith’s skeleton 5. Basecamp (todo manager) 6. EdgeCast CDN (Origin Pull)
12. Servers and networks
13. Understand how a server works
14. You don’t need to be an expert at everything
15. ProTip: Get NewRelic
16. When things go well
17. When things don’t go well
18. When things go slow
19. ProTip: Use CDNs Origin Pull FTW.
21. “Managed WordPress Hosting”
23. Server-side & code caching
24. WP-Cron sucks
25. NewRelic background tasks - use ‘em
27. Default transient usage sucks <?php // Get any existing copy of our transient data if ( false === ( $blah = get_transient( 'blah' ) ) ) { // It wasn't there, so regenerate the data and // save the transient $blah = new WP_Query( 'cat=5' ); set_transient( 'blah', $blah ); } // Use $blah like you would have normally... codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_transient
29. Plugins or DIY?
30. Simple, single use plugins
31. Dependancies SUCK
33. Themes
36. Caching problems
37. Melbourne Cup 2012
38. By 9am - 40,000 page impressions Peaked at 20,000 requests per second 1m+ page views for the day 250,000+ uniques for the day Twice the amount of traffic than Fox Sports* * According to the measurement company Effective Measure
39. As a media publisher, you live for the moment when you get MASSIVE traffic like this...... You love this moment, but also in the back of your mind is the fear your site will not be able to handle the demand. “ ~ Zac Zavos The Roar conversant-media.com
40. Thank you benmay.org @benjmay