Spelix is a webapplication using PHP on the server, HTML5 and JS on the client. PHP is running as a FastCGI process serving requests via Nginx. This presentations describes some of the key-takeaways that I've learned with that project, the essentials of running Nginx with PHP, starting from the basics, but also covering techniques like Memcached or leveraging the FastCGI cache. It contains several examples and performance comparison charts.