Talk from MySQL Conference 2008 about scaling your data layer by running your requests in parallel and asynchronously over a services layer.

1. Services Oriented
Architecture with PHP
and MySQL
Joe Stump, Lead Architect, Digg

2. Introductions
I’m Joe Stump, Lead
Architect for Digg.

3. Reduce HTTP Requests
Bundle JavaScript and CSS
Use sprites for images
Reduce images / outside objects
This talk doesn’t cover
MySQL details. The point
of this discussion is how
to minimize MySQL’s
impact on your
company’s data layer.

4. Old habits die hard
Data requests are sequential
Data requests are blocking
Tightly coupled
Scaling is not abstracted