Retries and Timeouts with Bastian Hofmann
12/17/19 • 23 min
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Bastian Hofmann about handling retries and timeouts in PHP. Bastian shares a load of great advice, including:
- Having dedicated hosts for certain traffic
- Distinguishing between normal users and admin users
- Offloading work to asynchronous jobs
- Default socket timeouts and max execution times
- Automatic retries
- Tuning settings and rules of thumbs as to how to do so
- Tooling for monitoring
- Circuit breakers
- Integrating monitoring into legacy codebases
- Plus loads load more!
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Guests: Bastian Hofmann.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.
Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email [email protected].
This podcast is produced by Tideways. Don't look further for an all in one Monitoring, Profiling and Exception Tracking software for PHP applications available on tideways.com. Follow us on Twitter (@tidewaysio). Find out more about us at https://tideways.com.
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Bastian Hofmann about handling retries and timeouts in PHP. Bastian shares a load of great advice, including:
- Having dedicated hosts for certain traffic
- Distinguishing between normal users and admin users
- Offloading work to asynchronous jobs
- Default socket timeouts and max execution times
- Automatic retries
- Tuning settings and rules of thumbs as to how to do so
- Tooling for monitoring
- Circuit breakers
- Integrating monitoring into legacy codebases
- Plus loads load more!
Links
Guests: Bastian Hofmann.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.
Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email [email protected].
This podcast is produced by Tideways. Don't look further for an all in one Monitoring, Profiling and Exception Tracking software for PHP applications available on tideways.com. Follow us on Twitter (@tidewaysio). Find out more about us at https://tideways.com.
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Why sticky sessions are, often, a bad idea
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Plus loads load more!
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Guests: Robert Douglass and Larry Garfield.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.
Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email [email protected].
This podcast is produced by Tideways. Don't look further for an all in one Monitoring, Profiling and Exception Tracking software for PHP applications available on tideways.com. Follow us on Twitter (@tidewaysio). Find out more about us at https://tideways.com.
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Guests: Nils Adermann.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.
Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email [email protected].
This podcast is produced by Tideways. Don't look further for an all in one Monitoring, Profiling and Exception Tracking software for PHP applications available on tideways.com. Follow us on Twitter (@tidewaysio). Find out more about us at https://tideways.com.
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