{"id":695,"date":"2009-07-23T12:11:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-07-23T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T19:11:32","slug":"laura-thomson-presenting-at-oscon-about-sumo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2009\/07\/23\/laura-thomson-presenting-at-oscon-about-sumo\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Thomson presenting at OSCON about SUMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/oscon2009\">OSCON<\/a>, be sure to not miss senior software engineer, PHP guru, and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\">SUMO<\/a> lead developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurathomson.com\/\">Laura<\/a>&#8216;s presentation titled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/oscon2009\/public\/schedule\/detail\/8363\">Scaling Firefox Support with PHP<\/a>. From the presentation summary:<\/p>\n<p><span>SUMO<\/span> \u2013 support.mozilla.com \u2013 was launched as  the official in-product help for Firefox 3.  <span>SUMO<\/span> is built on top of TikiWiki (an open source wiki built with <span>PHP<\/span> and MySQL) which had never been used on such a  large scale website before.  In this case study we\u2019ll cover the steps  used to get <span>SUMO<\/span> up for Download Day and keep  it up since.  We\u2019ll cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Systems approach and diagnosis<\/li>\n<li>Profiling<\/li>\n<li>Database architecture, replication, and full text search<\/li>\n<li>Making caching work (in so many ways)<\/li>\n<li>Tricks, hacks, and workarounds<\/li>\n<li>Load testing: the architecture of our test cluster and tools and  how we use them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The presentation starts at 1:45 pm in meeting room J2. Be there, or be sqrt()!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re at OSCON, be sure to not miss senior software engineer, PHP guru, and SUMO lead developer Laura&#8216;s presentation titled Scaling Firefox Support with PHP. From the presentation summary: &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2009\/07\/23\/laura-thomson-presenting-at-oscon-about-sumo\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[644,263,646,645,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}