Bridging the gap with the new Zend DBi By Mickey Hoter On November 29, 2016 We’re happy to announce that we’ve just released a new version of Zend DBi, which introduces MariaDB to the IBM i world for the first time. MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL and the latest version 10.1 is compatible with MySQL 5.7. Compatible, in a sense that you can migrate your apps from […]
10 ways Zend Server boosts performance By Mickey Hoter On September 21, 2016 Zend Server is known for its ability to maximize the performance of production PHP applications. Here’s a brief breakdown on ten different features in Zend Server that help you do just that. #1 PHP 7 stack Zend Server includes the only certified, secure, and complete PHP 7 stack that’s highly performing and backed by enterprise-grade support. […]
ADHD and how to get non-feature engineering work done By Roy Sarkar On November 29, 2016 How we found the time to fit in engineering work – things the customer won’t see – when swamped with new features and bug fixes
Deploying PHP apps on the cloud By Kara Howson On November 3, 2016 With worldwide cloud services expected to grow close to 20 percent in the next five years according to Forbes, it’s time for companies to embrace deploying apps on the cloud. Useful links: Watch the recording View the slides Watch the full webinar series In yesterday’s webinar, “Deploying PHP apps on the cloud,” Boaz Ziniman and […]
Special thanks to the PHP community for ZendCon 2016 By Adam Culp On October 28, 2016 With the passing of the 12th ZendCon, and my third year as one of the organizers, there is much to reflect on. Being the second year we’ve held the conference in Las Vegas, there were less surprises despite many things being new behind the scenes. The entire team worked very fluidly together, and there was […]
Performance isn’t a one-off process By Kara Howson On October 18, 2016 Recap of Zeev Suraski’s webinar on measuring and improving PHP performance
PHP.RUHR – It’s more than just PHP By Roy Sarkar On October 4, 2016 We recently spoke with Marc Grotholtman, organizer of the upcoming PHP.RUHR conference. With access to web developers and decision makers in Germany and around Europe, PHP.RUHR offers a full day of expertise and entertainment for all attendees. In three short years, the event has outgrown its old venue and will now be hosted by the Signal […]
10 years of PHP on IBM i – Attend the celebration at ZendCon 2016 By Amy Anderson On September 30, 2016 2016 is a special year for ZendCon. It’s the first where we’ll dedicate a focused track to the myriad of open source technologies, use, and support. And in similar vein, it marks 10 years of PHP on IBM i. In my earlier blog post, “Open source on IBM i: Has hell frozen over?” I talked about the […]
Solving problems and high availability By Kara Howson On September 29, 2016 Did you know that the most time spent on problem resolution is identifying the root cause? In yesterday’s webinar, “Solving problems and high availability,” Clark Everetts shared with the audience that it’s common to see over 80 percent of time is spend gathering information, recreating the problem, and analyzing the information before a fix is […]
Results of DevOps maturity assessment By Roy Sarkar On September 28, 2016 We asked our webinar audience, including developers and IT professionals, about their DevOps practices – here are the results.
