Massively Scaled High Performance Web Services with PHP - Demin Yin - PHP UK Conference 2019

This talk explores the effectiveness of PHP for building web services, using Glu Mobile's flagship mobile game Design Home as a case study. The speaker explains how PHP powers the game's robust backend, which has consistently ranked among the top free mobile games since its launch in late 2016, attracting over 1 million daily active users and handling more than 100,000 requests per minute. The presentation delves into the thought processes, development practices, testing methodologies, and deployment strategies that have led to the successful implementation of PHP, demonstrating that, when utilized correctly, it can support reliable, scalable, and high-performance backend services.