Caching Data For Performance
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This document discusses the importance and methods of caching data for performance improvements in web applications, highlighting various caching strategies like using local databases, disk, and memory caches such as memcached. It provides examples of how to implement caching with PHP and discusses considerations like data security and cache invalidation. The document also emphasizes that caching enhances scalability by reducing the load on databases.
![Caching On Disk Make a big array of the data you need. // At the start of your script $array = unserialize(file_get_contents($fileName)); // If the data isn't already there, put it there if(array_key_exists('key', $array)) { $value = $array['key']; } else { // Retrieve or compute $value $value = “Hello, World!”; $array['key'] = $value; } // At the end of your script file_put_contents($fileName, serialize($array));](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/caching-data-for-performance-1202410239849020-4/85/Caching-Data-For-Performance-10-320.jpg)
Caching Data For Performance
- 1. Caching Data For Performance Dave Ross West Suburban Chicago PHP Meetup February 7, 2008
- 2. Caching It's faster to get information from somewhere close...
- 3. Caching Than somewhere far away.
- 4. It's all about scalability. (seriously)
- 5. Where? Generally speaking... Local Database faster than Shared Database Local Disk faster than Database RAM faster than Disk
- 6. What? Anything you don't want to fetch or compute every time your code runs. Anything that isn't going to change very often.
- 7. Everybody's Doing It! WP-Cache (Wordpress) Drupal has it built-in memcached (LiveJournal, Slashdot, WikiPedia)
- 8. Even PHP Itself Is Getting Cached PHP opcode caches compile your scripts and run these pre-parsed versions instead. Zend Optimizer APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Xcache eAccelerator ionCube
- 9. A Few Things I Cached Recently Access Control List Page metadata Entire CMS pages
- 10. Caching On Disk Make a big array of the data you need. // At the start of your script $array = unserialize(file_get_contents($fileName)); // If the data isn't already there, put it there if(array_key_exists('key', $array)) { $value = $array['key']; } else { // Retrieve or compute $value $value = “Hello, World!”; $array['key'] = $value; } // At the end of your script file_put_contents($fileName, serialize($array));
- 11. Of Course, the OS Caches Files Modern operating systems use all your free RAM as a disk cache. If you read the same file over & over, it's probably being read out of RAM the second time on. So, it's usually ok to read a small file over & over.
- 12. memcached “ memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.”
- 13. memcached (It's a big array that doesn't go away when your PHP program ends.)
- 14. memcached <?php $memcache = new Memcache; $memcache->connect('localhost', 11211) or die ("Could not connect"); $version = $memcache->getVersion(); echo "Server's version: ".$version."<br/>\n"; $tmp_object = new stdClass; $tmp_object->str_attr = 'test'; $tmp_object->int_attr = 123; $memcache->set('key', $tmp_object, false, 10) or die ("Failed to save data at the server"); echo "Store data in the cache (data will expire in 10 seconds)<br/>\n"; $get_result = $memcache->get('key'); echo "Data from the cache:<br/>\n"; var_dump($get_result); ?>
- 15. Caveats Be careful caching anything where security matters. Don't cache credit card info (PCI compliance) Keep cache up-to-date (when data changes)
- 16. For More Information Caching In General http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache PHP Accelerators/Opcode Caches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_accelerator http://www.zend.com/en/products/guard/optimizer memcached http://www.danga.com/memcached/