Shipping a website or application to production has its own challenges, but when it gets the right traction, its a great accomplishment. It always feels good to see the visitor numbers going up, doesnt it? Except, of course, when your traffic increases so much that it crashes your little LAMP stack.

But fear not! There are ways to make yourPHPapplication much more reliable and consistent. If the term scalability crossed your mind, you've got the right idea.

This talk will try to demystify the term "scalability" and show in practical terms what are the steps necessary to buildPHPapplications that can be horizontally scaled, using a real world application as example.

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ErikaHeidi is a web developer / devOp working withPHPand Linux for over a decade. Author of the Vagrant Cookbook and open source projects likephansible.comanddev-human.org, she worked many years as an independent developer, experimenting with a large diversity of projects and tools.Erikais an active open source contributor, speaker and writer, working as developer advocate for DigitalOcean.

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Food and drink will be provided by Digital Ocean.