The first meeting of the Sydney PHP Group for 2009 will be at 6pm on Thursday, February 5. We have a new venue above Wynyard station and you need to RSVP using Upcoming. This month I’ll be speaking about faster web applications using message queues.

Sending an email to one or two people from a contact form is pretty simple but what happens when sending an email means 5,000 of your closest friends? Richard will cover how some of the largest websites provide fast response times by off-loading intensive, non-critical jobs to back end processes.