The benefit of Zend Server Monitoring
I was sitting at my computer this morning when an email came in notifying me that there was an error indexing my Lucene content. This error was generated by the Zend Server event monitoring system. I...
View ArticleZend Server Cluster Manager
On June 23rd Zend announced the release of Zend Server Cluster Manager. Which means what, exactly.PHP is designed using a shared-nothing architecture. What that means is that nothing is shared. What...
View ArticleZend Server is proprietary. NNNOOOOO!!!!
In my Do You Queue article there was a comment posted about open source alternatives to Zend Server's Job Queue. Being somewhat of an open source afficionado (I can spell that thanks to my love of fine...
View ArticleHow to (properly) evaluate Zend Server – Introduction
So, today kind of got away from me and I was trying to think of what I could do to salvage this day when I came across an idea that I have had in the past. As you all probably know, Zend has...
View ArticleHow to (properly) evaluate Zend Server – Event Monitoring
So, you just received instructions to download and try out Zend Server. Or, you heard that Zend Server is a "PHP Application Server", but you have no idea what that means and you want to find out. What...
View ArticleTapping millions of non-PHP PHP developers. (A manager’s short guide for...
I was getting ready to post the Powerpoint presentations from my last two user group meetings when I fat-fingered my "My Documents" folder and accidentally opened up a Word doc that had an old article...
View ArticlePre-caching FTW
I just had an epiphany. I've talked about pre-caching content before and the benefits thereof before. But this is the first time I realized not only that there are benefits, but that doing it is BETTER...
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