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Jan 30 05:53

Scaling PHP from the farside

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[UPDATE]: Facebook plans to release a rewritten PHP runtime shortly. There was some speculatory report which made claims of a 10Ximprovement over mod_php.

Lately, I've managed to push myself to work on a new (and hopefully useful) pet project. For somebody whose constrained world-view of PHPLand was centered around producing or maintaining MVC frameworks that weren't full of shit bloat, It's been an interesting experience treading previously uncharted territory.

The most bitter truth is complicated
Let's accept it. PHP (for it's 33% share of the web, facebook, wikipedia, yahoo! and everything else included) is a tough nut to scale. The conventional way of scaling the PHP-layer for an application from scratch involves getting your hands dirty in the world of web servers, load balancers, opcode-caches and more.

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Dec 14 03:38

Monty says, Help save #MySQL

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http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html

Matter of notice, especially for PHPers, MySQLers in one of the EU nations.

This is a laughable account of profound hypocrisy. MySQL maintained a smart dual license policy throughout (I'm not complaining!), and sold out to Sun in it's ailing days(?) (This was disappointing) and eventually Oracle got a runaway deal on everything, but it's now that Monty expresses moral outrage over Oracle's ownership.

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Nov 20 18:36

Why most frameworks suck

By: p6 Tags:

You might call me cynical, but this is a ranty (and nothing new) list of complaints + FUDs against most web development / application frameworks. Seems like this is also a natural point of transition for believers in another (new) faith, that of self-help (albeit more self deception and vanity all the same).

You fit the bill, rather than the bill fitting you
So many times, it seems that the problem is with MVC as a concept itself. The inherently flat flavor most frameworks put MVC in action to makes it that much more difficult for large codebases. It can't be helped feeling that adopting an MVC design is in many cases, squeezing yourself into a car rather than walking into one.

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