PHPDay 2013 - High Performance PHP

High Performance PHPPHPDay 2013Jonathan Klein@jonathanklein

Saturday, May 18, 13

Slides, Links:jkle.in/phpday


Some Etsy Stats• 1.4 billion page views/month• Almost $1B in sales last year• Over 1M lines of PHP


Agenda• Why Performance Matters

• Profiling PHP Applications

• Code Level Optimizations

• Big Wins

• Load Testing

• Takeaways


The Value of Performance



Real World Examples

http://www.phpied.com/the-performance-business-pitch/




Real World Examples• Firefox: -2.2 seconds = 15.4% more downloads






• Shopzilla: -5 seconds = 7-12% increase in revenue







• Google: +400ms = 0.76% fewer searches







• Google: +400ms = 0.76% fewer searches

• Amazon: +100ms = -1% revenue





~80% of page load time takes

place on the client


...if your backend is fast


A fast page load is 2 seconds

This means you have 400ms to get that HTML off your server


But network time could be ~100ms

This means you have 400ms 300ms to build the page


< 100ms feels instant< 1 sec feels like flow

< 10 sec to keep user’s attention

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/






Full Page Load – 2 Seconds








Base HTML – 400ms








Base HTML – 400ms

Server Generation Time – 300ms





Profiling PHP Applications


Monitoring/Tracing • Paid:

• Tracelytics (bought by AppNeta)

• AppDynamics (building a PHP solution)

• dynaTrace (building a PHP solution)

• New Relic (has a free option)

• Free:

• StatsD/Graphite

• xhprof


Monitoring/Tracing • Paid:

• Tracelytics (bought by AppNeta)

• AppDynamics (building a PHP solution)

• dynaTrace (building a PHP solution)

• New Relic

• Free:

• StatsD/Graphite

• xhprof


StatsD (UDP packets)$start = microtime(true);/* script content */$end = microtime(true);

StatsD::timing('foo.bar', $end - $start);

More Info: http://goo.gl/LbDPE


http://goo.gl/LbDPE

http://goo.gl/LbDPE

Graphite• Written by Orbitz

• Real-time graphing engine for StatsD data (among other things)

• http://graphite.wikidot.com/

• Architecture: http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html


http://graphite.wikidot.com

http://graphite.wikidot.com

http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html




Etsy Conversations PHP Time

Execution Count


Search Page PHP Time (95th Percentile)


Search Page Execution Count


Stacked Search Timers


xhprof• PHP Extension (need to install)

• http://pecl.php.net/package/xhprof

• Code level tracing

• Significant overhead, use in DEV only!

• Add ?xhprof=1 to URL

• Results in browser


http://pecl.php.net/package/xhprof

http://pecl.php.net/package/xhprof






Lesson: Profile Your Code


Code Level Optimizations


Writing Efficient PHPSet max value before loop:

$max = count($rows); for ($i = 0; $i < $max; $i++) { echo $i; }

require_once() is slow

Minimize use of define()

Yes, single quotes are slightly faster than double quotes, but...


Almost Every Micro-Optimization is Worthless


http://phpbench.com/












Writing Efficient PHPSet max value before loop:

$max = count($rows); for ($i = 0; $i < $max; $i++) { echo $i; }

Okay, this one is pretty good




So Why Even Mention Micro-Optimizations?


http://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/




strtok() to implode()


Lesson:Focus on the Big

Wins


“Premature optimization is the root of all evil”- Donald Knuth


Big Wins


Upgrade PHP


Upgrade PHP5.3 is ~20% faster than 5.2



http://news.php.net/php.internals/36484











5.4 is ~20-40% faster than 5.3






5.4 is ~20-40% faster than 5.3http://news.php.net/php.internals/57760

















Upgrading 5.2 --> 5.4 gives a 45-70% improvement!









Upgrading 5.2 --> 5.4 gives a 45-70% improvement!http://php.net/migration53






http://php.net/migration53






























PHP 5.4 is 5 Times Faster than PHP 4http://static.zend.com/topics/White-paper-PHP4-PHP5.pdf


http://static.zend.com/topics/White-paper-PHP4-PHP5.pdf

http://static.zend.com/topics/White-paper-PHP4-PHP5.pdf

Etsy’s Upgrade to PHP 5.4


Use an Opcode Cache (APC)


Standard Page Execution


With An Opcode Cache


Opcode Cache Vanilla settings: 30-40% improvement

Turn off APC Stat: additional ~2x improvement -- Understand what is happening herehttp://www.slideshare.net/vortexau/improving-php-application-performance-with-apc-presentation


http://www.slideshare.net/vortexau/improving-php-application-performance-with-apc-presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/vortexau/improving-php-application-performance-with-apc-presentation

Cache Data in a Key-Value Store


APC User Cache<?php$foo = "Hello, World!";apc_store('some_key', $foo);?>

<?phpvar_dump(apc_fetch('some_key'));?>

-------- Output --------

string(12) "Hello World!"


APC User Cache


APC User Cache • Avoid fragmentation - keep utilization under 10%



• Assign 1GB, only fill 100MB




• Compress objects that are > 10KB before storing





• Reduce garbage collection in the source of apc_store()






• Consider CDB






• Consider CDB• http://engineering.wayfair.com/moving-constants-out-of-apc-

and-into-cdb/


http://engineering.wayfair.com/moving-constants-out-of-apc-and-into-cdb/




Memcached• Usually a separate server• In-memory key-value store• Extremely simple and fast• http://memcached.org/


http://memcached.org/

http://memcached.org/

APC vs. MemcachedAPC User Cache Memcached

Local to the Server Shared Network Resource

Good for small objects Large or small objects

Good for mostly read workloads

Can read and write quickly

Only one instance Can be clustered


Fix All Errors• PHP 5.3: E_ALL | E_STRICT

• PHP 5.4: E_ALL

• Can also do error_reporting(-1);


Child Processes4-6 processes per CPU core.

Beyond that just add servers.

(Test your app)


HipHop for PHP• Developed/Open Sourced by Facebook

• Now a VM + JIT compilation

• 5x improvement in throughput over PHP 5.2• http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2010/02/02/

hiphop-for-php--move-fast/

• https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/speeding-up-php-based-development-with-hiphop-vm/10151170460698920

• https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php


http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2010/02/02/hiphop-for-php--move-fast/




https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/speeding-up-php-based-development-with-hiphop-vm/10151170460698920






https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php

https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php

Understand Framework

Overhead


http://systemsarchitect.net/performance-benchmark-of-popular-php-frameworks/







Symfony is 20x slower than raw

PHP


Load Testing


JMeter• Open Source• Generate load via a GUI or command

line• Can watch req/s degrade with more

users• Easy to use







Be Careful


Be Careful• JMeter looks a lot like a DOS attack


Be Careful• JMeter looks a lot like a DOS attack• Make sure you know what is failing


Be Careful• JMeter looks a lot like a DOS attack• Make sure you know what is failing• Look at monitoring while test is running


Be Careful• JMeter looks a lot like a DOS attack• Make sure you know what is failing• Look at monitoring while test is running• Run in Production


Be Careful• JMeter looks a lot like a DOS attack• Make sure you know what is failing• Look at monitoring while test is running• Run in Production

• Run a test, make a change, run it again


Takeaways


“How Fast Is Your Site?”


This is a terrible quesiton


Why is it terrible?


Why is it terrible?• Lack of context



• Are we talking about average or a percentile?




• Server side time or client?





• Who is measuring it?






• When is it being measured?






• When is it being measured?

• Real users or synthetic?


We still have to answer it


Pick Tight SLAs

“The homepage of our site will load in <300ms at the 80th percentile, measured by sampling 10% of our real users over a 24 hour period every day at 8AM.”


Pick Tight SLAs

“The homepage of our site will load in <300ms at the 80th percentile, measured by sampling 10% of our real users over a 24 hour period every day at 8AM.”


Things to Remember


Things to Remember• Measure and monitor your application



• Focus on big wins




• Run the latest (stable) version of PHP





• Make sure you are using APC correctly






• It’s always the database (stay in this room)







• Caching is your friend







• Caching is your friend

• Know what system resources you depend on


There is a lot more to talk about


Get in Touchhttp://web-performance.meetup.com/

www.etsy.com/careers

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@jonathanklein


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PHPDay 2013 - High Performance PHP