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Zend Framework is always considered as being the slow/bloated one. I don’t think this is right, so I decided to prove that it’s not correct and in fact ZF is as good as other frameworks are. This post doesn’t cover any benchmarks though; this is more like a architecture review and some misconceptions disproof. [...]

During last two months I spent massive amount of time tweaking Doctrine ORM framework and making it to perform as fast as possible (as you might have noticed from my never ending tweets). This post is devoted to performance and efficiency, with practical tips & tricks how to reduce memory usage, make it work [...]

As websites grows, searches like “LIKE title ‘%search term%’” becomes unreliable. There are very good solutions like Sphinx, Lucene, etc, but not surprisingly, you can’t always have Sphinx installed (shared servers again) and other solutions should be chosen.
MySQL supports full-text indexing, but it doesn’t give a lot of control over actual index. Luckily, Zend [...]

Static images have correct headers – Apache sends them by default. Different story is with all dynamic generating content – if you don’t send correct headers user’s browser will load it every time. It’s not always good, because generated thumbnails doesn’t change every time and should be cached in browser’s cache. If you want to [...]