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PHP Performance Crash Course, Part 2: The Deep Dive
Posted by Dustin Whittle | Nov, 07, 2013 | In APM Best Practice, APM Thought Leadership, PHP
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In my first post on this series I covered some basic tips for optimizing performance in php applications. In this post we are going to dive a bit deeper into the principles and practical tips in scaling PHP.
Top engineering organizations think of performance not as a nice-to-have, but as a crucial feature of their product. Those organizations understand that performance has a direct impact on the success of their business.
Ultimately, scalability is about the entire architecture, not some minor code optimizations. Often times people get this wrong and naively think they should focus on the edge cases. Solid architectural decisions like doing blocking work in the background via tasks, proactively caching expensive calls, and using a reverse proxy cache will get you much further than arguing about single quotes or double quotes.
Just to recap some core principles for performant PHP applications:
- Upgrade to PHP 5.5 with Zend OpCache using PHP-PFM + Nginx
- Stay up to date with your framework + dependencies (using Composer)
- Optimize your session store to use signed cookies or database with caching
- Cache your database and web service access with Memcache or Redis
- Do blocking work in the background with queues and tasks using Resque
- Use HTTP caching and a reverse proxy cache like Varnish
- Profile code with Xdebug + Webgrind and monitor production performance
The first few tips don't really require elaboration, so I will focus on what matters.
Optimize your sessions
In PHP it is very easy to move your session store to Memcached:
1) Install the Memcached extension with PECL
pecl install memcached
2) Customize your php.ini configuration to change the session handler
session.save_handler = memcached
session.save_path = "localhost:11211"
If you want to support a pool of memcache instances you can separate with a comma:
session.save_handler = memcached
session.save_path = "10.0.0.10:11211,10.0.0.11:11211,10.0.0.12:11211"
The Memcached extension has a variety of configuration options available, see the full list on Github. The ideal configuration I have found if using a pool of servers:
session.save_handler = memcached
session.save_path = "10.0.0.10:11211,10.0.0.11:11211,10.0.0.12:11211"
memcached.sess_prefix = "session."
memcached.sess_consistent_hash = On
memcached.sess_remove_failed = 1
memcached.sess_number_of_replicas = 2
memcached.sess_binary = On
memcached.sess_randomize_replica_read = On
memcached.sess_locking = On
memcached.sess_connect_timeout = 200
memcached.serializer = "igbinary"
That's it! Consult the documentation for a complete explanation of these configuration directives.
Leverage caching
Any data that is expensive to generate or query and long lived should be cached in-memory if possible. Common examples of highly cacheable data include web service responses, database result sets, and configuration data.
Using the Symfony2 HttpFoundation component for built-in http caching support
I won't attempt to explain http caching. Just go read the awesome post from Ryan Tomako, Things Caches Do or the more in-depth guide to http caching from Mark Nottingham. Both are stellar posts that every professional developer should read.
With the Symfony2 HttpFoundation component it is easy to add support for caching to your http responses. The component is completely standalone and can be dropped into any existing php application to provide an object oriented abstraction around the http specification. The goal is to help you manage requests, responses, and sessions. Add "symfony/http-foundation" to your Composer file and you are ready to get started.
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
$response = new Response('Hello World!', 200, array('content-type' => 'text/html'));
'etag' => 'a_unique_id_for_this_resource',
'last_modified' => new \DateTime(),
'max_age' => 600,
's_maxage' => 600,
'private' => false,
'public' => true,
If you use both the request and response from the http foundation you can check your conditional validators from the request easily:
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
$request = Request::createFromGlobals();
$response = new Response('Hello World!', 200, array('content-type' => 'text/html'));
if ($response->isNotModified($request)) {
Find more examples and complete documentation from the very detailed Symfony documentation.
Caching result sets with Doctrine ORM
If you aren't using an ORM or some form of database abstraction you should consider it. Doctrine is the most fully featured database abstraction layer and object-relational mapper available for PHP. Of course, adding abstractions comes at the cost of performance, but I find Doctrine to be exteremly fast and efficient if used properly. If you leverage the Doctrine ORM you can easily enable caching result sets in Memcached:
$memcache = new Memcache();
$memcache->connect('localhost', 11211);
$memcacheDriver = new \Doctrine\Common\Cache\MemcacheCache();
$config = new \Doctrine\ORM\Configuration();
$entityManager = \Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager::create(array('driver' => 'pdo_sqlite', 'path' => __DIR__ . '/db.sqlite'), $config);
$query = $em->createQuery('select u from \Entities\User u');
$query->useResultCache(true, 60);
$users = $query->getResult();
Find more examples and complete documentation from the very detailed Doctrine documentation.
Caching web service responses with Guzzle HTTP client
Interacting with web services is very common in modern web applications. Guzzle is the most fully featured http client available for PHP. Guzzle takes the pain out of sending HTTP requests and the redundancy out of creating web service clients. It's a framework that includes the tools needed to create a robust web service client. Add "guzzle/guzzle" to your Composer file and you are ready to get started.
Not only does Guzzle support a variety of authentication methods (OAuth 1+2, HTTP Basic, etc), it also support best practices like retries with exponential backoffs as well as http caching.
$memcache = new Memcache();
$memcache->connect('localhost', 11211);
$memcacheDriver = new \Doctrine\Common\Cache\MemcacheCache();
$client = new \Guzzle\Http\Client('http://www.test.com/');
$cachePlugin = new \Guzzle\Plugin\Cache\CachePlugin(array(
'storage' => new \Guzzle\Plugin\Cache\DefaultCacheStorage(
new \Guzzle\Cache\DoctrineCacheAdapter($memcacheDriver)
$response = $client->get('http://www.wikipedia.org/')->send();
// response will come from cache if server sends 304 not-modified
$response = $client->get('http://www.wikipedia.org/')->send();
Following these tips will allow you to easily cache all your database queries, web service requests, and http responses.
Moving work to the background with Resque and Redis
Any process that is slow and not important for the immediate http response should be queued and processed via non-blocking background tasks. Common examples are sending social notifications (like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), sending emails, and processing analytics. There are a lot of systems available for managing messaging layers or task queues, but I find Resque for PHP dead simple. I won't provide an in-depth guide as Wan Qi Chen's has already published an excellent blog post series about getting started with Resque. Add "chrisboulton/php-resque" to your Composer file and you are ready to get started. A very simple introduction to adding Resque to your application:
1) Define a Redis backend
2) Define a background task
class MyTask
public function perform()
// Work work work
echo $this->args['name'];
3) Add a task to the queue
Resque::enqueue('default', 'MyTask', array('name' => 'AppD'));
4) Run a command line task to process the tasks with five workers from the queue in the background
$ QUEUE=* COUNT=5 bin/resque
For more information read the official documentation or see the very complete tutorial from Wan Qi Chen:
- Part 1 : Introduction
- Part 2 : Queue system
- Part 3 : Installation
- Part 4 : Worker
- Part 5 : Job class and implementation
- Part 6 : Integrate Resque into CakePHP with CakeResque
- Part 7 : Start and stop workers with Fresque
- Part 8 : A look into php-resque-ex, a fork with more features
- Part 9 : Resque analytics with ResqueBoard
Monitor production performance
AppDynamics is application performance management software designed to help dev and ops troubleshoot performance problems in complex production applications. The application flow map allows you to easily monitor calls to databases, caches, queues, and web services with code level detail to performance problems:
Take five minutes to get complete visibility into the performance of your production applications with AppDynamics Pro today.
If you prefer slide format these posts were inspired from a recent tech talk I presented:
As always, please feel free to comment if you think I have missed something or if you have a request for content in an upcoming post.
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Technical deep dive on what's impacting Healthcare.gov
Posted by Jim Hirschauer | Oct, 25, 2013 | In APM Thought Leadership
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There has been a wealth of speculation about what might be wrong with the healthcare.gov website from some of the best and brightest technology has to offer. It seems like everyone has an opinion about what is wrong yet there are still very few facts available to the public. One of our Engineers (Evan Kyriazopoulos) at AppDynamics did some research using our End User Monitoring platform and has some interesting findings that I will share with you today.
What We Already Know
Healthcare.gov is an architecture of distributed services built by a multitude of contractors, and integrates with many legacy systems and insurance companies. CGI Federal (the main contractor) said that it was working with the government and other contractors "around the clock" to improve the system, which it called "complex, ambitious and unprecedented." We've put together a logical architecture diagram based upon the information that is currently in the public domain. This logical diagram could represent hundreds or even thousands of application components and physical devices that work in coordination to service the website.
How We Tested
The Findings
What we found after visiting multiple pages was that the problems with response time are pretty evenly divided between server response time issues and browser processing time issues. In the screenshot below you can see the average of all response times for the web pages we visited during this exploratory session. The "First Byte Time" part of the graphic is the measure of how long the server took to get its initial response to the end user browser. Everything shown in blue/green hues represents server side response times and everything in purple represents browser client processing and rendering. You can see really bad performance on both the client and server side on average.
Now let's take a look at some individual page requests to see where their problems were. The image below shows an individual request of the registration page and the breakdown of response times across the server and client sides. This page took almost 71 seconds to load with 59 seconds attributed to the server side and almost 12 seconds attributed to the client side data loading and rendering. There is an important consideration with looking at this data. Without having access to either the server side to measure its response time, or to all network segments connecting the server to the client to measure latency we cannot fully determine why the client side is slow. We know there are js and css file optimizations that should be made but if the server side and/or network connections are slow then the impact will be seen and measured at the end user browser.
Moving past registration… The image below shows a "successful" load of a blank profile page. This is the type of frustrating web application behavior that drives end users crazy. It appears as though the page has loaded successfully (to the browser at least) but that is not really the case.
When we look at the list of our end user requests we see that there are AJAX errors associated with the myProfile web page (right below the line highlighted in blue).
So the myProfile page successfully loaded in ~3.4 seconds and it's blank. Those AJAX requests are to blame since they are actually responsible for calling other service components that provide the profile details (SOA issues rearing their ugly head). Let's take a look at one of the failed AJAX requests to see what happened.
Looking at the image below you can see there is an HTTP 503 status code as the response to the AJAX request. For those of you who don't have all of the HTTP status codes memorized this is a "Service Unavailable" response. It means that the HTTP server was able to accept the request but can't actually do anything with it because there are server side problems. Ugh… more server side problems.
Now that we have some good data about where the problems really lie, what can be done to fix them? The server side of the house must be addressed first as it will have an impact on all client side measurements. There are 2 key problems from the server side that need resolving immediately.
1) Functional Integration Errors
When 100s of services developed by different teams come together, they exchange data through APIs using XML (or similar) formats (note the AJAX failures shown above). Ensuring that all data exchange is accurate and errors are not occurring requires proper monitoring and extensive integration testing. Healthcare.gov was obviously launched without proper monitoring and testing and that's a major reason why many user interactions are failing, throwing errors and insurance companies are getting incomplete data forms.
To be clear, this isn't an unusual problem. We see this time and time again with many companies who eventually come to us looking for help solving their application performance issues.
To accelerate this process of finding and fixing these problems at least 5X faster, a product like AppDynamics is required. We identify the source of errors within and across services much faster in test or production environments so that Developers can fix them right away. The screenshots below show an example of an application making a failed service call to a third party and just how easy it is to identify with AppDynamics. In this case there was a timeout socket exception waiting for PayPal (i.e. the PayPal service never answered our web services call at all).
2) Scalability bottlenecks
The second big problem is that there are performance bottlenecks in the software that need to be identified and tuned quickly. Here here is some additional information that almost certainly apply to healthcare.gov …
a) Website workloads can be unpredictable, especially so with a brand new site like healtcare.gov. Bottlenecks will occur in some services as they get overwhelmed by requests or start to have resource conflicts. When you are dealing with many interconnected services you must use monitoring that tracks all of your transactions by tagging them with a unique identifier and following them across any application components or services that are touched. In this way you will be able to immediately see when, where, and why a request has slowed down.
b) Each web service is really a mini application of it's own. There will be bottlenecks in the code running on every server and service. To find and remediate these code issues quickly you must have a monitoring tool that automatically finds the problematic code and shows it to you in an intuitive manner. We put together a list of the most common bottlenecks in an earlier blog post that you can access by clicking here.
Finding and fixing bottlenecks and errors in custom applications is why AppDynamics exists. Our customers typically resolve their application problems in minutes instead of taking days or weeks trying to use log files and infrastructure monitoring tools.
AppDynamics has offered to help fix the healthcare.gov website for free because we think the American people deserve a system that functions properly and doesn't waste their time. Modern, service oriented application architectures require monitoring tools designed specifically to operate in those complex environments. AppDynamics is ready to answer the call to action.
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Performance testing tools explained: The client side
Posted by Dustin Whittle | Oct, 23, 2013 | In APM Best Practice, APM Thought Leadership, DevOps
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In my last post I showed different approaches for load testing the server side. In this post I will highlight some tools I use to monitor the performance of the client side.
In modern Javascript-intensive web applications, users spend more time waiting on client-side rendering than the server-side processing. The reality is that as much effort that goes into optimizing the server-side, more effort should be made to optimize the client-side. End user monitoring has never been so important.
Why does performance matter?
Just to recap a few statistics about the business impact of performance at major internet companies:
- Amazon and Walmart increased revenue 1% for every 100ms of improvement
- Microsoft found that Bing searches that were 2 seconds slower resulted in a 4.3% drop in revenue per user
- When Mozilla shaved 2.2 seconds off their landing page, Firefox downloads increased 15.4% (60 million more downloads)
- Making Barack Obama's website 60% faster increased donation conversions by 14% (30 million more dollars)
- Shopzilla sped up average page load time from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds, and increased revenue by 12% and page views by 25%
As you iterate through the software development cycle it is important to measure application performance on both the server side and the client side and understand the impact of every release. Here are some tools you can use to test the performance of the entire end user experience:
Google PageSpeed Insights
Google PageSpeed Insights provides actionable advice for improving the performance of client-side web applications. PageSpeed Insights analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates. The service is available as part of the Google Chrome Developer Tools as an extension, a web service, and extensions for Apache and Nginx.
Use the Google PageSpeed Insight API to integrate client-side optimizations into your continuous integration setup.
curl "https://www.googleapis.com/pagespeedonline/v1/runPagespeed?url=http://dustinwhittle.com/&key=xxx"
WBench is a tool that uses the HTML5 navigation timing API to benchmark end user load times for websites.
1) Install WBench:
gem install wbench
2) Run WBench:
wbench http://dustinwhittle.com/
WebPageTest.org enables anyone to test the client-side performance on a range of browsers from anywhere in the world for free. This service is great and worth every penny I didn't pay for it. Not only does it provide a range of mobile/desktop browsers and locations, but it also shows a waterfall timeline and a video of the rendering.
With AppDynamics Pro you get in-depth performance metrics to evaluate the scalability and performance of your application. Use the AppDynamics Pro Metrics Browser to track end user experience times and errors over the duration of the load tests:
With AppDynamics Pro End User Experience Dashboard you get visibility into both the server-side and the client-side:
Use AppDynamics Pro to compare multiple application releases to see the change in performance and stability:
In my next post in this series I will cover load testing tools for native mobile applications. Get started with AppDynamics Pro today for in-depth application performance management.
As always, please feel free to comment if you think I have missed something or if you have a request for content in an upcoming post.
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Performance testing tools explained: the server side
Posted by Dustin Whittle | Oct, 15, 2013 | In APM Best Practice, APM Thought Leadership, DevOps
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The performance of your application affects your business more than you might think. Top engineering organizations think of performance not as a nice-to-have, but as a crucial feature of their product. Those organizations understand that performance has a direct impact on user experience and, ultimately, their bottom line. Unfortunately, most engineering teams do not regularly test the performance and scalability of their infrastructure. In my last post on performance testing I highlighted a long list of tools that can be used for load testing. In this post we will walk through three performance testing tools: Siege, MultiMechanize, and Bees with Machine Guns. I will show simple examples to get started performance testing your web applications regardless of the language.
Why performance matters?
A few statistics about the business impact of performance at major internet companies:
- Amazon and Walmart increased revenue 1% for every 100ms of improvement
- Microsoft found that Bing searches that were 2 seconds slower resulted in a 4.3% drop in revenue per user
- When Mozilla shaved 2.2 seconds off their landing page, Firefox downloads increased 15.4% (60 million more downloads)
- Making Barack Obama's website 60% faster increased donation conversions by 14% (30 million more dollars)
- Shopzilla sped up average page load time from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds, and increased revenue by 12% and page views by 25%
As you iterate through the software development cycle it is important to measure application performance and understand the impact of every release. As your production infrastructure evolves you should also track the impact of package and operating system upgrades. Here are some tools you can use to load test your production applications:
Apache Bench
Apache bench is simple tool for load testing applications provided by default with the Apache httpd server. A simple example to load test example.com with 10 concurrent users for 10 seconds.
Install Apache Bench:
apt-get install apache2-utils
Apache bench a web server with 10 conncurrent connections for 10 seconds:
ab -c 10 -t 10 -k http://example.com/
Benchmarking example.com (be patient) Finished 286 requests Server Software: nginx Server Hostname: example.com Server Port: 80 Document Path: / Document Length: 6642 bytes Concurrency Level: 10 Time taken for tests: 10.042 seconds Complete requests: 286 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Keep-Alive requests: 0 Total transferred: 2080364 bytes HTML transferred: 1899612 bytes Requests per second: 28.48 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 351.133 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 35.113 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 202.30 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 9 20 14.2 17 148 Processing: 117 325 47.8 323 574 Waiting: 112 317 46.3 314 561 Total: 140 346 46.0 341 589 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 341 66% 356 75% 366 80% 372 90% 388 95% 408 98% 463 99% 507 100% 589 (longest request)
Siege + Sproxy
Personally, I prefer Siege to Apache Bench for simple load testing as it is a bit more flexible.
Install Siege:
apt-get install siege
Siege a web server with 10 conncurrent connections for 10 seconds:
siege -c 10 -b -t 10S http://example.com/
** SIEGE 2.72 ** Preparing 10 concurrent users for battle. The server is now under siege... Lifting the server siege... done. Transactions: 263 hits Availability: 100.00 % Elapsed time: 9.36 secs Data transferred: 0.35 MB Response time: 0.35 secs Transaction rate: 28.10 trans/sec Throughput: 0.04 MB/sec Concurrency: 9.82 Successful transactions: 263 Failed transactions: 0 Longest transaction: 0.54 Shortest transaction: 0.19
More often than not you want to load test an entire site and not just a single endpoint. A common approach is to crawl the entire application to discover all urls and then load test a sample of those urls. The makers of Siege also make sproxy which in conjunction with wget enables you to crawl an entire site through a proxy and record all of the urls accessed. It makes for an easy way to compile a list of every possible url in your appplication.
1) Enable sproxy and specify to output all the urls to a file urls.txt:
sproxy -o ./urls.txt
2) Use wget with sproxy to crawl all the urls of example.com:
wget -r -o verbose.txt -l 0 -t 1 --spider -w 1 -e robots=on -e "http_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:9001" "http://example.com/"
3) Sort and de-duplicate the list of urls from our application:
sort -u -o urls.txt urls.txt
4) Siege the list of urls with 100 concurrent users for 3 minutes:
siege -v -c 100 -i -t 3M -f urls.txt
** SIEGE 2.72 ** Preparing 100 concurrent users for battle. The server is now under siege... Lifting the server siege... done. Transactions: 263- hits Availability: 100.00 % Elapsed time: 90.36 secs Data transferred: 3.51 MB Response time: 0.35 secs Transaction rate: 88.10 trans/sec Throughput: 0.28 MB/sec Concurrency: 9.82 Successful transactions: 2630 Failed transactions: 0 Longest transaction: 0.54 Shortest transaction: 0.19
When testing web applications sometimes you need to write test scripts that simulate virtual user activity against a site/service/api. Multi-Mechanize is an open source framework for performance and load testing. It runs concurrent Python scripts to generate load (synthetic transactions) against a remote site or service. Multi-Mechanize is most commonly used for web performance and scalability testing, but can be used to generate workload against any remote API accessible from Python. Test output reports are saved as HTML or JMeter-compatible XML.
1) Install Multi-Mechanize:
pip install multi-mechanize
2) Bootstrapping a new multi mechanize project is easy:
multimech-newproject demo
import mechanize import time class Transaction(object): def run(self): br = mechanize.Browser() br.set_handle_robots(False) start_timer = time.time() resp = br.open('http://www.example.com/') resp.read() latency = time.time() - start_timer self.custom_timers['homepage'] = latency assert (resp.code == 200) assert ('Example' in resp.get_data())
3) Run the multi-mechanize project and review the outputted reports
multimech-run demo
Bees with Machine Guns
In the real world you need to test your production infrastructure with realistic traffic. In order to generate the amount of load that realistically represents production, you need to use more than one machine. The Chicago Tribune has invested in helping the world solve this problem by creating Bees with Machine Guns. Not only does it have an epic name, but it is also incredibly useful for load testing using many cloud instances via Amazon Web Services. Bees with Machine Guns is a utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications).
1) Install Bees with Machine Guns:
pip install beeswithmachineguns
2) Configure Amazon Web Services credentials in ~/.boto:
[Credentials] aws_access_key_id=xxx aws_secret_access_key=xxx [Boto] ec2_region_name = us-west-2 ec2_region_endpoint = ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
3) Create 2 EC2 instances using the default security group in the us-west-2b availabily zone using the ami-bc05898c image and login using the ec2-user user name.
bees up -s 2 -g default -z us-west-2b -i ami-bc05898c -k aws-us-west-2 -l ec2-user
Connecting to the hive. Attempting to call up 2 bees. Waiting for bees to load their machine guns... . . . . Bee i-3828400c is ready for the attack. Bee i-3928400d is ready for the attack. The swarm has assembled 2 bees.
4) Check if the ec2 instances are ready for battle
bees report
Read 2 bees from the roster. Bee i-3828400c: running @ 126.96.36.199 Bee i-3928400d: running @ 18.104.22.168
5) Attack a url if the ec2 instances are ready for battle
bees attack -n 100000 -c 1000 -u http://example.com/
Read 2 bees from the roster. Connecting to the hive. Assembling bees. Each of 2 bees will fire 50000 rounds, 125 at a time. Stinging URL so it will be cached for the attack. Organizing the swarm. Bee 0 is joining the swarm. Bee 1 is joining the swarm. Bee 0 is firing his machine gun. Bang bang! Bee 1 is firing his machine gun. Bang bang! Bee 1 is out of ammo. Bee 0 is out of ammo. Offensive complete. Complete requests: 100000 Requests per second: 1067.110000 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 278.348000 [ms] (mean) 50% response time: 47.500000 [ms] (mean) 90% response time: 114.000000 [ms] (mean) Mission Assessment: Target crushed bee offensive. The swarm is awaiting new orders.
6) Spin down all the EC2 instances
bees down
With AppDynamics Pro you get in-depth performance metrics to evaluate the scalability and performance of your application. Use the AppDynamics Pro Metrics Browser to track key response times and errors over the duration of the load tests:
Use the AppDynamics Scalability Analysis Report to evaluate the performance of your application against load tests:
Use AppDynamics Pro to compare multiple application releases to see the change in performance and stability:
Get started with AppDynamics Pro today for in-depth application performance management.
As always, please feel free to comment if you think I have missed something or if you have a request for content in an upcoming post.
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Acidini Luchinat, Cristina 1951-Overview
Publication Timeline
Most widely held works by
Cristina Acidini Luchinat
The Medici, Michelangelo, & the art of late Renaissance Florence
7 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 814 libraries worldwide
The Chapel of the Magi : Benozzo Gozzoli's frescoes in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi Florence
by Benozzo
2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 394 libraries worldwide A glittering cavalcade of men and animals winds through a rocky landscape under an azure sky. The men are dressed in all the luxury of Italian fifteenth-century fashions, in brilliant colors, damask, gold brocade. They ride horses and camels with various exotic creatures to amuse them - dogs, cheetahs, peacocks and monkeys. In the background are forests and picturesque towered towns.
Benozzo Gozzoli
by Cristina Acidini Luchinat
9 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in English and Italian and held by 348 libraries worldwide
Art of the royal court : treasures in Pietre Dure from the palaces of Europe
by Wolfram Koeppe
3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 287 libraries worldwide "In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework, the art of pietre dure was developed in Renaissance Florence, where the manufacture of such objects was enthusiastically sponsored by Medici princes. Ideally suited for ostentatious display, the works sent an unmistakable message of wealth and political might that was understood in centers of power everywhere. From Italy the medium spread across Europeto Prague, Madrid, Naples, Paris, and later Saint Petersburg. Precious and fragile, pietre dure objects are rarely brought together in large numbers. This richly illustrated catalogue contains more than 150 masterworks from across Europe, dating from five centuries, including almost every artistic use of semiprecious stone during this time as well as some of the finest examples of the medium. Eight essays by European and American experts discuss the individualized development of pietre dure in every European region, the latest developments in scholarship, the interrelationships between art and dynastic politics and between cultures, and a variety of techniques used to produce these luxurious masterworks."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Treasures of Florence : the Medici collection 1400-1700
4 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in French and English and held by 263 libraries worldwide "Treasures of Florence: The Medici Collection 1400-1700 reunites the most beautiful jewellery and ornaments in the Medici collection from the 15th to 18th centuries. Although today these objects are distributed among several Florentine museums, they are presented here together. The book divides the fascinating history of the Medici family into a series of chapters each devoted to a major patron within the dynasty. These chapters provide a detailed history and description of the objects and their makers and the reasons they were commissioned or purchased. Vivid color photography, much of it especially commissioned, faithfully conveys the opulent beauty of this magnificent collection." "Originally bankers and merchants, the Medicis became identified as supporters of the workers and artisans of Florence in the late 14th century. Early in the 15th century the family began 300 years of almost uninterrupted control as popular leaders of the city. After his death in 1464, Cosimo, the first of the ruling Medicis, was given the title Pater Patriae (the father of his country) by his people. It was his grandson Lorenzo (the Magnificent) who patronised Botticelli, da Vinci, and Michelangelo." "The focus of the Medicis' collection was jewellery, gems, cameos, ornaments and exotic objects. It also included antique vases made using the pietra-dura technique, whose value was increased through elaborate borders made of gold, silver or enamel. Many were collected by Lorenzo il Magnifico. Treasures of Florence boasts a rich variety, from the works of Benvenuto Cellini, through Baroque art, to exotic pieces from Asia, Mexico, and India. The final chapter examines the exquisite jewels which belonged to the Elector Anna Maria Ludovica, the last ruler of the Medici dynasty."--BOOK JACKET.
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1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 175 libraries worldwide This publication provides the reader with impressive insight into Botticelli's important contributions to Florentine art, and also traces the ideals of feminine beauty, embodied not only by his enchanting goddesses and Madonnas, but also in the idealized portrait of an unknown lady.
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Maestri e botteghe : pittura a Firenze alla fine del Quattrocento : [mostra] Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi, 16 ottobre 1992-10 gennaio 1993
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Renaissance Florence : the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, 1449-1492
6 editions published between 1993 and 1994 in Italian and English and held by 125 libraries worldwide
Il Palazzo Medici Riccardi di Firenze
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Mr. Acharya Jayant, BE (Chemical), MBA (Marketing) has been Director of Commercial & Marketing at JSW Steel Ltd since April 1, 2010. Mr. Jayant served as a Director of Sales & Marketing at JSW Steel Ltd from May 7, 2009 to March 31, 2010. He served as Senior Vice President of Marketing of JSW Steel Ltd. since 1 July, 1999 and served as President of Sales & Marketing. He has been a Whole-time Director of JSW Steel Ltd. since May 7, 2009. He holds a Masters in Physics ...
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Starring: | Joan Sims, Harry H. Corbett, Kenneth Williams, Fenella Fielding, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Angela Douglas |
Director: | Gerald Thomas |
Genre: | Comedy |
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The Carry On series ran from 1963 to 1978. Carry On Screaming is one of the best, and also one of my favourites, as it is a spoof of the hammer house of horror series. it is also set in the victorian era, which i have always found fascinating. harry H corbett from steptoe and son takes the leading role with peter butterworth as his sidekick. they are superb. well worth renting out.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from Lincs UK , 07 Nov 2004This is 2nd only to Carry on Camping as my fave Carry On movie. who can forget the immortal cry of 'frying tonite!'
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By a customer from London, England , 15 Jul 2004In the same theme as many other Carry On films, the usual slap stick and plays on words, and the usual cast of characters.
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What are the choices to get from the Venice Airport to the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice Hotel. I would like to know the routes, prices, and approximate time. My husband and I will each have a suitcase, carry on (both with wheels) and a small bag-purse for me and backpack for him. We are leaving for Venice on Tuesday so a quick reply would be appreciated. Thanks.
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from personal experience. Bus to P Roma u can walk it in 15
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The Alilaguna stops directly in front of the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice. Please visit the website www.alilaguna.it for an updated timetable, which is subject to change seasonally. The charge is Euro 15 per person. Transfer time is approximately 1 hour 20 minutes.
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In a game, I normally have the chance to take my opponents rook in exchange for a bishop and a knight. What would you do + why?
What I would do if my opponent exchanged a bishop and knight for my rook is I would win the game. A rook is worth 5 pawns. A bishop and knight is worth 6 pawns. Obviously this is a bad exchange for the owner of the dead bishop and dead knight.
1Checkmate, 2Material, 3Force, 4Time, 5Space/Mobility. Order of importance. Checkmate is not within the search horizon for either side. To be precise you're trading a Bishop and Knight for a Rook and Pawn. So you're essentially equal on Material value alone.
However Look at the other factors of the trade: The Black Knight on g4 puts a Force of 1 on h6,f6,e5,e3,f2, and h2 The Black Bishop on c5 puts a Force of 1 on a7,b6,d4,e3,f2,a3,b4,d6,e7,&f8 Where as the White Pawn on f2 only puts a Force of one on e3 and g3, and the White Rook only puts a Force of one on f2, d1 and e1. Not a good trade.
Time? Without the trade Black has 3 minor pieced developed to White's 4, White is castled, and black is not. Just a little behind but its Black's move and he can develop a 4th piece or castle. WITH the trade, Black has ONE minor piece developed to White's 4. MUCH worse. Time says NO! (time also says you shouldn't have moved the g8 Knight twice)
Space/Mobility? Black has 47 moves availble to him prior to initiating the trade. White: 32 After the trade: Black 35, White 41. I'm not going to add up forces on each square to find out which side controls more squares pre-trade and post-trade, but you could. My intuition says white would gain ground.
Remember to compare to the other legal moves you could make that may give you better checkmate, material, force, time, or space/mobility. There's many better moves, and IN THIS situation, that trade is not justified. Now in the endgame or elsewhere the same criteria may yield different results. But at least I hope I've helped you see why that is a bad trade in your example.
Also on your first example, the position is NOT illegal, its black to move, he's in check and must get out, but white is not in check, I do not see anything "illegal" about the position.
If I recall correctly there are two dark squared bishops and no pawn could have promoted to them, thus, a position that cannot occur in a game and is therefore illegal.
A good point
A simple way of taking a bad opponnets rook in 4 moves, emphasis on bad.
In post #29 you're simply winning the f7-pawn (what in the world?).
your diagrams are illegal positions
but some good points although I question your most recent illustration which is a bit random
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No, generally when you swap two minor pieces for a rook you have put yourself in a losing game.. In the diagram you swapped a rook and a pawn for two minor pieces and even with the extra pawn you put yourself in a losing game. Remember a knight is generally worth maybe 3.2 pawns and a bishop is generally worth 3.3 pawns compared to a rook worth about 5.0 pawns.
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