Atlanta PHP User Group

When: Thursday, March 1, 2007—7pm-9pm
Where: Consulate General of Canada

Topic: When Your Pet Project Grows Up, Part 2

Robert Swarthout and Zack Huston will continue their presentation on their experiences scaling their site PaperBackSwap.com:

So what happens when your pet project is no longer a small little site but rather a site with thousands of visitors a day? This month we will talk about the growing pains and code changes we have experienced in taking our pet project to a site that has in excess of 650,000 page loads a day. Can your site scale? What kind of hardware, database and software has it taken to scale our site, PaperBackSwap.com? We will share our experiences with these issues and many other problems we have tackled. Let it be known that we are not experts, just normal Joes sharing what we have learned and continue to discover.

Our meeting takes place at the Consulate General of Canada at 100 Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta (at the corner of Peachtree and 14th Streets). Click here for directions. You will need to see the concierge in order to gain access to the 17th floor.

In addition to our regular monthly meetings with presentations, we also get together on the third Thursday of each month for an informal coffee break. There’s no topic, just a nice little get-together. Anyone is welcome to come out and have a cup of coffee and chat.

We meet at Octane at the corner of Marietta Street and Howell Mill on Thursday, February 15th at 7pm.

Octane Coffee Bar & Lounge
1009 Marietta St NW
Atlanta , GA 30318

For more information, check out the forum.