Chris Renner’s Blog: Enhance performance with Zend_Cache

Chris Renner talks on his blog about his experience with using Zend Framework’s Zend_Cache component as stand-alone library.

So I finally took the Zend Framework plunge a few weeks ago.  No, I didn’t start building an application with the framework, but I did start investigating some of the ZF classes for stand-alone implementation in my existing projects.

The first ZF class to catch my eye was Zend_Cache, for its obvious performance implications.  The applications I develop and manage are very heavy with database transactions.  Hitting the db every time you need an object is a serious performance bottleneck, and on a shared environment can be troubling to other applications living in the same environment.

He introduces readers to Zend_Cache component and its features, including some not commonly known, and presents practical usage to cache database queries using APC.