That's awesome, congratz!

I'm sure that would make for a great case study as to why you switched
and what challenges you encountered/overcame..
Any interest in sharing details?

Daniel

Hi Daniel,
I plan to put one together.  I need to see with the CTO how many details I can give away.  We have a pretty cutting-edge stack of components so I'm hoping to let the world know.

I can tell you right away that clearing the app/cache when you change templates, configs, routing, etc is a complete nightmare.  Webservers will run at 100% for 5-6 minutes even with Varnish handling most hits.  503s are a pain.

Once I finish putting out fires like "this hidden and undocumented feature that was implemented years before I got involved is now broken", I'll put some detailed information together and run it by the CTO for clearance to publish.

~Eric

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That's awesome, congratz!

Daniel

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> I can tell you right away that clearing the app/cache when you change templates, configs, routing, etc is a complete nightmare.  Webservers will run at 100% for 5-6 minutes even with Varnish handling most hits.  503s are a pain.

Well, it can be easily solved.
Create 2 installations of your site, point one to dev.yourdomain.com,
second - to the yourdomain.com.
Second - stable release. Do not change anything on it.
First - dev version. As soon as it will be ready for the deployment -
switch main domain on it (using dns/server settings etc.)

What an amazing news! )))))))

Eric, could you share your invaluable experience about highload
application creation on Symfony2? E.g. article or slidecat?
> For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en

I've started working on an article.  I've been given permission to talk about everything that isn't directly security related so it will be quite detailed.

It was a successful launch by the way.  Everyone is quite happy with the results.

~Eric



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Awesome job Eric!

Can't wait to read your article.

Will you be at the Confoo conference?

Cheers.

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Le 10/02/12 04:20, « Eric Pickup » <Eric....@manwin.com> a écrit :

There hasn't been a single sexist porn-related joke in this whole
discussion - what's wrong with us IT people? ;-)

Honestly, can't wait for it, great job and truly terrific attitude re
sharing.

Regards,
Manuel

Am 10.02.12 09:21, schrieb Hugo Hamon:

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I think it just shows how mature/professional are the list subscribers here.

I've also noted the lack of porn comments and I'm quite proud of you guys :P.

I'm working on my notes right now but since I have been asked to give the Keynote on Wednesday the 29th at the Confoo conference on this topic, my aim is more towards that - I've never spoken to 500+ people at the same time LOL. I need to get well prepared.  It will be announced tomorrow.  Once I have the presentation ready, I'll develop that into a series of articles.

The presentation itself won't deal much with Symfony2 since a) Hugo himself will be doing training on it in much more detail and b) running Symfony2 at high traffic is more about the supporting technologies than the framework itself.  With enough servers and the right tech, I could probably get Zend Framework working at our level although I would have to question my sanity for trying to.  I'll cover the specifics of how we implemented Symfony2 itself more in the articles.

I feel we really went with best of breed for everything on this project.  It was the smoothest relaunch ever and we've done a bunch of them.

~Eric



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Heya,

On 14.02.2012 02:58, Eric Pickup wrote:
> I'm working on my notes right now but since I have been asked to give the Keynote on Wednesday the 29th at the Confoo conference on this topic

Great. Looking forward to hearing that one. Sounds way better than the
typical sales pitches of main conference sponsors :)

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Hi Eric,

great job! Looking forward on article about this project. Can you tell
me how many developers were participating in development? And how long
development last? Just aproximatly.

Cheers

On 02/16/2012 05:11 PM, Jordi Boggiano wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On 14.02.2012 02:58, Eric Pickup wrote:
>> I'm working on my notes right now but since I have been asked to give the Keynote on Wednesday the 29th at the Confoo conference on this topic
> Great. Looking forward to hearing that one. Sounds way better than the
> typical sales pitches of main conference sponsors :)
>
> Cheers
>

Great news :-) I'm currently working hard on a complete rewrite of our site. We don't have as many impressions as youporn has but I'm quite interested in the challenges you overcame. I'm looking forward to your report :-)

Hi folks,

i started the development of a CSR community some time ago with Symfony2 and spent many night thinking: "Will it be suitable for our requirements, will it be stable for all those page hits" and then i'm reading this!
Quite awesome to hear that such a highly visited website uses the same framework - good job Eric!

May i ask if you used some library for rendering the menus and i you use some kind of "auto generated" administrator back-end for all the database-entities?
How much work had the marriage between Doctrine (I assume you use Doctrine?) and Redis been?
And last but not least: which search engine did you use?

I know i'm asking much, but there's also one thing i'd like to give to you:
You search-function isn't XSS-Safe (http://www.youporn.com/search/?query=%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%3Ealert%28%22XSS%22%29;%3C/script%3E&type=straight) ;-).

Good night from germany,

./Martin

What happened ?????

that site's security flaw is all over the news, I am not sure then why it was so much advertised and supported on this dev ml. I hope it is not sf2's fault.

The security breach has being done using a third-party chat system, not Symfony2's fault. For more information:  http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/53005-youporn-user-credentials-hacked 

I actually covered this in my talk tonight.  The requirement was that it should be transparent to end users.  Our only tool to monitor success is traffic (we are not a paid site) so if a new feature or usability change improved or decreased traffic, we wouldn't know if the rewrite or this new change was the cause.  There is also a brand issue.  We have millions of loyal users and loyal users tend to love the "current" UI and that doesn't matter what site you are using.

Sorry for the late reply, I've been concentrating on the presentation.

~Eric

Do you have the slides of the talk online somewhere for poor folks like myself who where unable to attend ConFoo.ca? =)

Looking forward to that. Thanks for sharing the experience !

Does anyone have link for video recording?

Here you can watch this: