Develop & Deploy Using Hybrid Cloud Strategies

Explore hybrid cloud strategies for PHP development and deployment in this 52-minute conference talk from PHP UK Conference 2012. Learn how to combine stable hosting solutions with distributed and burstable unmanaged cloud platforms like Azure and AWS for computing, storage, and CDN. Discover best practices for infrastructure, including DNS management, shared-nothing architecture, session handling, and replication. Dive into topics such as Amazon RDS, Memcache scaling, offloading static files, and using abstraction layers. Gain insights on implementing page caching, syncing static data, push-pull strategies, custom hostnames, and code deployment techniques. Understand the importance of avoiding vendor lock-in while leveraging the benefits of hybrid cloud solutions for PHP projects.

Introduction
Model
Playing with the hammer
The goal
Amazon
DNS
Shared nothing
Sessions
Greenfield projects
Single server setup
Replication
MS plugin
Cloud strategies
RDS
Hybrid
Memcache
Scale
Offloading static files
Using abstraction layers
Local filesystem
Design patterns
Final implementation
Page caching
Syncing static data
Pushpull strategy
Custom host names
Deploying code
Dont lock yourself in