Some quick notes on useful apps for speeding up webapps. I’ve been working on one application that was suffering some performance issues and needed immediate help. So, with a combination of the following three apps and some hours of configuration tuning, I have the page loads down from 10 seconds to 2 seconds. Not too bad. Still more tuning to go of course.
PHP Acceleration: http://eaccelerator.net
Memcached http://www.danga.com/memcached
XtraDB http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-xtradb:start
