operational maturity of php applications - zend · 16/04/2008 · increasing maturity of php...

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Enhancing the Operational Maturity of PHP Applications and Infrastructure

Siddhartha Agarwal

VP, Americas Field Operations

[email protected]

(408) 342 8887

| 16-Apr-08Increasing Maturity of PHP Applications | 2

• Maintaining quality through shrinking release cycles

• Managing and scaling business-critical Open Source applications to deliver on SLAs

• Increasing the rate of successful deployments from development into production environments

• Enabling developers to focus on developing functionality as opposed to solving production issues

• Securing applications to protect enterprise and customer data

• Defining standards for Open Source applications across the enterprise

Key Priorities articulated by CTOs, CIOs and VPsof Engineering


How do I enforce consistent versions of PHP?

How do I scale my dynamic PHP applications?

How do I “operationalize” my PHP applications?

How do I improve the developer productivity?

These priorities have raised the following questions for PHP applications…


Typical “Legacy” Process of Developing & Deploying PHP Applications

• Download PHP from PHP.net

• Download Editor and Apache Server

Build PHP Application

• Fast!

• Easy

Try toDeploy

• Problems!

• Headaches!

Now What?Developer

or for organizations looking to migrate to PHP …

For organizations that have already adopted PHP…


Existing Environment

• Provided a Java and a .NET based shared infrastructure to GE business units and 300,000 employees

• Started seeing a large number of PHP applications being developed and run within the business units

• Decided to deliver a similar shared infrastructure for PHP application deployment to enable standardization and reducing management costs

Their Goals

• Attain operational maturity on PHP applications within 3-6 months

• Deliver rapidly on SLAs and time-to-market requirements

• Provide security, high availability, standardization across all applications

Their Challenges

• Lack of in-house PHP expertise

• Lack of best practices and automation for managing applications with varying availability requirements

• Ability to enable segregation of duties between development and productions operations

GE Corporate: Hosted infrastructure/operations for PHP applications to all GE Business Units


DevelopmentQuality

AssuranceStaging Production

• Different versions of PHP

• Architecture/design does not consider

scalability requirements

• Deployment documentation is lacking

• Production operations lacks

expertise to manage PHP apps

• Low deployment success rate

• Developers frequently involved in

production issues

Chasm Between Development and Production Operations

Challenges with ensuring Predictability through the Applications Delivery Lifecycle


DevelopmentQuality


Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Feedback /

Improvement

Continuous

Monitoring

Automation and Best Practices help create Predictability in the Applications Delivery Lifecycle

Moving consistently across phases increases operational predictability & performance


Quality Assurance

Development

Mastering the Basics

Staging Production

• Best practices and coding standards

• Reusable code

• Architecture guidelines

• Consistent development environment


Development

Proactive Planning

Quality Assurance

Staging Production

• Repeatable, uniform testing

• Documentation standards

• Performance and scalability metrics

• Planning for Compliance


DevelopmentQuality

Assurance

Achieving Predictability and Stability

Staging Production

• Deployment and maintenance standards

• Agreed-upon processes

• Proactive management

• Centralized monitoring

• Established, proven communication mechanisms


DevelopmentQuality

Assurance

Continuous Monitoring & Improvement

Staging Production

• Delivering on SLAs

• Reducing MTTR via root cause analysis

• Increasing MTBF through Post incident reviews

• Configuration Mgmt through Maintenance & update profiles


Moving consistently across phases enhances Operational Maturity

Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Continuous

Improvement

Value

Operational Maturity

Greater Maturity => Reduced Cost, Risk => Increased Uptime


Quality Assurance

Development

How is your organization doing on these phases?

• Best practices and coding standards

• Reusable code

• Architecture guidelines

• Consistent development environment

Staging Production

• Repeatable, uniform testing

• Documentation standards

• Performance and scalability metrics

• Planning for Compliance

• Deployment and maintenance standards

• Agreed-upon processes

• Proactive management

• Centralized monitoring

• Established, proven communication mechanisms

• Delivering on SLAs

• Reducing MTTR via root cause analysis

• Increasing MTBF through post incident reviews

• Configuration Mgmt through Maintenance & update profiles

Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

PlanningPredictability

& Stability

Continuous

Monitoring


Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Where is your Organization on the Operational Maturity Curve?

Value


Mastering

the Basics

Continuous

ImprovementCurrent Maturity

Maturity Required to

meet Business Goals

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Zend’s solutions leverage automation to mitigate the Operational Maturity Gap


Development

Zend Core: Ensuring Consistency Between Development and Production

Quality Assurance

Staging Production

Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Continuous

Monitoring

• Consistent versions of PHP, extensions, database drivers

• Timely updates associated with security patches, bug fixes, new extensions/drivers

• Configuration Management across entire production infrastructure


Zend Framework: Enhancing Developer Productivity, Improving Code Quality

DevelopmentQuality


• Higher deployment success rates

Components rigorously tested by Zend and PHP community

• Rapid development

• Pre-built components

• Iterative development cycles

• Developers focus on business specific functionality as opposed to infrastructure

Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Continuous

Monitoring


Zend Studio: Providing Developers Insight into Production Issues

• Reusability

• Remote Debugging

in Production

• Development best

practices

Standards for

deployment

DevelopmentQuality


Repeatable,

uniform

testing

Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Continuous

Monitoring

• Root Cause Analysis

• Replicate Production

problems in developer’s

environment


Zend Application Server: Delivering Proactive Management and Scalability in Production

Manageability

• Proactive Monitoring

• Scalability

• Performance

DevelopmentQuality


Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Continuous

Monitoring

• Developing high performance code via Caching

Defining/measuring

performance &

scalability metrics


Zend’s Software Solutions

• How many PHP developers do you have? Developer Bundle

• Zend Core/Zend Framework

• Zend Studio

• Zend Platform (Development License)

• Zend Gold Support

• How many production/staging servers do you have? Production Server Bundle

• Zend Core/Zend Framework

• Zend Platform

• Zend Platinum Support


DevelopmentQuality


• PHP I: Foundations

• PHP II: Higher Structures

• Studio with Platform

• Building PHP Apps with Zend Framework

• Building RIA with AJAX

• Zend Certification • Platform for Sys Admins

• Building Secure PHP Applications

• Architecture & Design Consulting

• Remote Installation & Admin Services

• Migration Consulting

• Audits

–Performance, security, architecture

• Gold Support • Platinum Support

Training

Consulting

Support

Zend Services Align with phases of the Application Delivery Lifecycle

Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Continuous

Monitoring


Zend’s solutions help organizations move up the

maturity curve fast …

Value


Mastering

the Basics

Proactive

Planning

Achieving

Predictability

& Stability

Continuous

Monitoring

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