HHVM at Etsy Notes

2015-01-01

HHVM at Etsy Presentation Notes

Slides available here

Introduction

• How Etsy Deploys 50 times a day

What is hhvm?

• How Three Engineers Rebuilt the Foundation of Facebook
• Enterprise Grade at Consumer Speed: The Road to HHVM
• How we Made Editing Wikipedia Twice as Fast
• Include Hack - HHVM - PHP++

Why?

• "API First" Development
• Concurrent PHP in the Etsy API
• What Hardware Powers Etsy.com?

How?

• Patch to add missing memcached constants
• geoip Extension
• msgpack Extension

The test

• Data-driven Done Right
• Memcached::drecrement patch
• Memcached::setOption patch
• Patch for thread-local setlocale()

What else can HHVM do?

• Flame Graphs
• HHVM Debugger
• pfff

The Future

• Rasmus' sunshinephp 2015 Presentation