Scaling Mozilla's websites with PHP

Description

Every instance of Firefox calls home every day.

mozilla.com, addons.mozilla.org, and support.mozilla.com, along with many other Mozilla sites, serve hundreds of millions of pages each day. All of Mozilla's websites are built with PHP, and frequently with third party Open Source PHP projects like CakePHP, Drupal, and TikiWiki.

In this session I'll discuss some of the challenges we have faced, including:

• Our infrastructure and scaling and performance analysis approach
• The challenges and rewards of basing our websites on existing Open Source projects
• Localization
• Security issues

Laura Thomson is a Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation on the web team, after spending much of the previous decade as a consultant and trainer on various Open Source technologies. Laura is the co-author of <cite>PHP and MySQL Web Development</cite> and <cite>MySQL Tutorial</cite>. She is a veteran speaker at Open Source conferences worldwide.