Performance of Zend Framework Applications

Theses

The main goal of this report is to show how certain techniques can improve performance of applications that use Zend Framework. I will create demo application and will apply these techniques to it. Plan of report:

Problem definition:

• Overview of demo application;
• Overview of testing environment;
• Overview of instruments for testing;
• Overview of parameters we should test, measurements before testing.

Overview of techniques (after each item — new measurements):

• Methods which are not directly connect to Zend Framework (accelerators, setup of web server);
• Deleting of require* from Zend Framework;
• Joining of Zend Framework classes to one big file;
• Autoloading and Zend_Loader;
• Caching of objects (Zend_Config, Zend_Locale, Zend_Acl, Zend_Navigation), caching of pages and blocks, caching results of database queries, etc;
• Memcache;
• Recommendations from Zend Framework team;
• How Zend_Server can help building high-load applications.