PHP UK Conference 2017 - Liam Wiltshire - Introduction to application scaling

This talk covers the common challenges developers face as their applications experience increased load, leading to performance issues and downtime. Liam discusses various scaling strategies, including horizontal and vertical scaling, caching techniques, sharding, and optimization methods. He explores approaches that can be integrated into new applications as well as those that can be retro-fitted to improve existing systems, providing valuable insights for managing scalability effectively.