Scaling WordPress for 1M+ users

At Typeform we use WordPress in our public properties with an average of 3 Million users monthly.
It’s complex to have a setup that works and doesn’t break with several daily updates. How do we deploy? How do we manage dependencies? Which tools help us to release seamlessly?
Let’s dig into Typeform’s WordPress setup.

Caching, the holy grail for web performance. Or is it?

The speed of websites and online stores get more and more focus, and most developers fix performance problems by adding caching or several layers of caching. Caching can give the impression of being the “holy grail” for all performance problems.

In this talk, I will go thru the different caching mechanisms in WordPress, how each of them should be used, and last but not least why you should not use caching as a performance enhancement.

What’s slow?! Server and WordPress App Monitoring

Monitoring WordPress performance from all angles! This talk will be useful for both site owners and code-linting professionals.

Everyone can get a better idea of how their site performs — from worldwide uptime testing, to line-by-line real-time code analysis. We’ll look at tools that anyone can set up in moments, as well as deep, server-level integrations that help developers to pinpoint problem segments in their code.

And what good is instrumentation without alerts? We’ll also talk about automated alerting and incident response. Tools we’ll look at include Updown, Grafana, New Relic, Pagerduty, Slack and… email(?!).