- • Use a different domain/sub-domain for static assets
- • Keep your cookies short and remember the MTU size
- • Don't overload your web servers
- • Use out-of-band processing - Gearman or custom via ZeroMQ
- • Don't move relational data out of a relational database
- • Do move huge non-relational tables out of your relational DB
- • Be very very careful with foreign keys. Avoid them if possible
- • Think long and hard about your ORM/caching strategy
- • If you are not on PHP 5.3 yet, do it!