Make your CakePHP app ridiculously faster with “view caching”
Big or small, once your app goes to production you’d better start thinking about utilizing view caching ;) Granted, view caching in a dynamic application can be tricky or impossible(?)… but with proper...
View ArticleSpeed things up with a custom-baked JSON view
Yet another gem of brilliance from Mr. jrbasso. In a couple of my previous posts regarding CakePHP and JQuery, I’ve shown some basic strategies on setting up the communication between the client and...
View ArticleSpeed up your pagination with a simple hack…
Before I go into the example in this little post, let me just say that this situation won’t be applicable to everyone… But let’s consider the following: We have a table with tens of thousands of...
View ArticleOffload read queries to a replica DB for better performance
In most web application, which require a lot of find()’s especially if more than a couple of models are involved, you should probably consider offloading those operations to read-only replica of your...
View ArticleMillion dollar site in CakePHP …
Is that possible? Yes, and it has been done. But… — CakePHP is slow. I’ve seen bench-marks on “Hello world” and cake falls behind other frameworks. — What’s your caching strategy? — [crickets] … Cache...
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