PHP UK Conference 2016 - Derick Rethans - HHVM and MongoDB — the perfect combination

This talk covers the integration of HHVM and MongoDB, where the speaker shares insights from developing an HHVM extension for MongoDB that replicates the functionality of a comparable PHP extension. The session highlights a PHP layer built on top of the extension, which enhances user-friendliness while achieving performance close to the C++ extension. The speaker explores the architecture of this setup, HHVM's JIT and extension APIs, and presents a comparative analysis of application performance using PHP with MongoDB versus HHVM with MongoDB.