Scalable Web Applications Using Open Source Software

Presented on 26 August 2004 at the 2nd Open Source Software Africa Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Discusses how to use the Open Source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform to build a scalable web application by understanding about scalability, resources, generic scalability tips, and platform-specific scalability advice. Based on my work at Independent Online, one of the largest web properties in Africa, running on a variant of the LAMP platform (IOL uses FreeBSD, not Linux).

Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

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StarCamp
I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.
GeekDinner
I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.
SynthaSite
I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.
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I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).
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