Jan 30, 2010, 14:51 by josedasilva
2 great topics in the talk. Will give a try on apm and pinba. Looking forward for the developments on this.
PHP applications/environments monitoring: APM & Pinba
Patrick Allaert, Davide Mendolia (Jan 30, 2010)
Talk at PHPBenelux Conference 2010 (Dutch)
Today, PHP is everywhere in the industry, from small businesses to biggest corporations, the need of monitoring exists at PHP application level as well as on the platform they are built on.
In parallel, the need of scalability and fault tolerance are increasing, especially in cloud computing environments. The monitoring of the entire infrastructure becomes therefore critical. To this end, Free and Open Source Software exist and will be presented during this session.
- Alternative PHP Monitor (APM): Nonintrusive PHP extension enabling the capture of miscellaneous events as errors and slow executions.
- Pinba: PHP extension and statistics server for collecting real time performance data.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/1246
Comments
Jan 30, 2010, 15:14 by derick
The concepts and content is good, but the executing of the presentation could be done better by rehersing and walking through it before a presentation.
Jan 30, 2010, 16:30 by Amazium
Chaos. Nothing worked at the beginning and latest version of the code couldn't be used. Test your hardware in the morning and have a backup plan ready. It felt like an ill-prepared presentation.
I had expected a lot of this presentation, but due to the chaos they lost me somewhere in the talk.
Jan 30, 2010, 16:44 by NickBelhomme
The ideas of the software presented in the presentation was interesting, but like the other comments mentioned ill prepared. Technical issues, and not knowing what would happen with some real time examples didn't sell the products very well.
But overal interesting talk.
Jan 30, 2010, 22:38 by Martin1982
Although I do have lots of trust in APM and Pinba and also know these guys could give a demo that raises some oooohh's and aaahh's this time it was different. I'm sorry to say but I had hoped to see it all in action.
Jan 31, 2010, 13:17 by jcauweli
Like others said before, ill prepared which made it difficult to follow. Also, leave the introducing of each other for the social and skip to the technical part of the presentation right away.
I am sure APM and pinba are interesting pieces of software, but the talk could not convince me and had too little usefull information in it.
Jan 31, 2010, 13:18 by roderik
I was not very impressed to be honest. While both projects are "young" and there might not be a lot of polish, it just didn't come across as well thought out due to technical issues, missing demonstration files and language issues (and the fact that lunch was long overdue). But don't let this come across that the presenters were bad or the technology sucked, it just didn't come across like it should have.
Jan 31, 2010, 15:26 by webtrix
Besides the technical problems in the beginning I found the presentation OK. It was an interesting subject, but not really well structured. Because of the technical problems it was hard to fit everything in the remaining time.
I think it would have been better to do a talk on one of the two subjects and not the both at the same time. The project you guys are working on looks really promising, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
I would really sign up for another talk when the projects are in a more mature fase.
Keep it up Patrick & Davide
Feb 2, 2010, 13:41 by jrutten
Unfortunately this talk lost a lot of points due to technical difficultys.
The topic and applications themselves look promising but are really still in an early stage.
I'll be looking forward to hearing more from APM en Pinba in the future.
Jan 30, 2010, 13:54 by phpcodemonkey
Interesting topic, well presented apart from the live demos which had issues die to another failed laptop. Will definitely follow up on this.