There’s a renaissance going on in the PHP world (hashtag: #phprenaissance). One of the big drivers of this renewed energy is the Hip Hop project, which promises breakthrough increases in PHP performance.

At DrupalCon Austin we presented initial benchmarks for speed gains with a sample Drupal site running under the Hip Hop Virtual Machine. Performance vs a well-tuned PHP 5.3 environment with APC was increased by 50%.

That's exciting. Building on that initial work, we will take a deep dive into the real-world ins and outs of running Drupal sites in production using this new engine.

This session is appropriate for any DevOp or Drupal Architect concerned with performance, as well as developers looking to write future-proof Drupal modules. It will cover technical details of how to set up HHVM, what to look out for as gotchas, and how to get the most benefit from a next generation PHP runtime.