How Shaklee used PHP & Zend to build a featherlight front-end that just won't go down

Technologists for one of world's most popular TV talk shows say, "We take down everyone's website!"
How Shaklee used PHP & Zend to build a featherlight front-end that just won't go down

In this talk, we'll discuss the immense loads that face a web site when their web property makes an appearance on a nationally syndicated television show. Their producers told us, "We take down everyone's web site that appears on this show." We are talking 8,000 requests per second, loads of approximately 60 MBits/sec for simply the text-based portions (HTML over HTTP) on our site, and over 200 MBits/sec for our static content (pics, graphics, etc.)

Come learn how we used Zend Platform's performance and management features, in combination with a featherlight front-end, to manage the massive numbers you see above. We'll discuss things like batch transaction processing (job queuing), using cookies to store the entire shopping cart, and other tips to offload as much as possible from the server-side. We'll also discuss how this kind of architecture simply isn't done with Java toolkits or web servers available out there. PHP with Zend tools enabled us to massively scale our performance and more importantly, manage our PHP infrastructure, in order to deal with these extraordinary loads and the code running under them in an orderly way.

With Zend we've handled the website load through three appearances on this national TV show and five airings, including reruns. Come hear how we did it.