March 13-15, 2019
Montreal, Canada

Massively Scaled High Performance Web Services with PHP

Over the years, people have questioned if PHP is a good choice for building web services. In this talk, I will share how we use PHP on the backend for Glu Mobile’s flagship mobile game Design Home, enabling it to regularly rank amongst the top free mobile games in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. We will deep dive into the thought processes, development, testing, and deployment strategy, showcasing what we have achieved with PHP.

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Demin Yin

Electronic Arts

Demin is a staff engineer at Electronic Arts (EA), working with cloud-native PHP, NoSQL, and infrastructure as code, with AI part of the stack. He builds backend microservices and libraries for mobile games. His career spans startups to some of the Bay Area's largest corporations, including eBay, Visa, and EA. He maintains 10+ open-source projects and contributes to PECL. He's also part of the Swoole team and speaks about PHP at conferences.

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