APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

In this talk, Tomas breaks down what application availability really means in practice—beyond buzzwords like SLA and "five nines." Through real examples, he shows how to set realistic uptime goals, align tech choices to actual needs, and manage both the cost and people involved in keeping things running. You'll leave with practical tips to avoid overengineering and focus on what matters for your business.

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MONITORING INTRODUCTION 2

Follow up monitoring presentation. This time focused on modern monitoring technologies in combination with real PHP application. I showed how to measure and evaluate basic PHP metrics. And last not least how to set up alerting based on those metrics.

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LIFE WITH PACKAGE MANAGER

Package management systems like npm or composer could save you lot of time but without proper knowledge it's just a ticking bomb. In my short speech I tried to discuss advantages and disadvantages of these systems and show common usage mistakes.

MONITORING INTRODUCTION

Why do you need monitor your applications? What possibilities do we have these days? How to use services like New Relic, Datadog or Prometheus? In the talk you can see usage of these technologies in action, custom metrics collecting and also APM integration.

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GRACEFUL SHUTDOWN IN PHP

How to use PCNTL in your production demons and workers? What's the correct way of graceful shutdown in PHP? And how to set it up in Kubernetes, Rancher or Supervisord. I have tried to answer all of these questions and I showed quick demo with implementation.

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USE DOCKER IN PRODUCTION

How to use Docker in production environment. 20 min of theory and 40 min of demo. I prepared whole infrastructure (master, hosts, loadbalancer) and then I deployed web pehapkari.cz to Rancher as docker container.

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