PHP Scales

Saturday, Jul. 3 2004 | Author: Scrivs

Chris Shiflett gives a great recap of all the recent discussions involving PHP and its scalability. Mainly this started with Friendster’s move to PHP from JSP and the killing of some of the myths that PHP does not scale well. Nice to see large implementations of the language being put to the test. This stuff really is fascinating to read for any geek.

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4 Responses for "PHP Scales"

JC

July 5th, 2004 at 21:32
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I’d have thought yahoo switching to php would have taken care of that question…
Scrivs

July 6th, 2004 at 00:45
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Well they only switched parts of their site and nobody knows what parts they switched. Now you at least you have a case study of a whole site switching.
JC

July 6th, 2004 at 09:10
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from an old article when they switched:

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Yahoo has already started using PHP for new properties, like the remember.yahoo.com site which was created as a September 11 tribute. Other early adopters of PHP at Yahoo included the PayDirect Site, the Classifieds – “Express” premium service, the personalized Yahoo News feature and almost the entire Yahoo Travel site.

Radwin said the migration of existing sites would be slow and gradual. “We have no plans to rewrite the entire site,” he said. Yahoo would spend the coming months mixing PHP, Apache DSOs, yScript1 and yScript2 pages, he said.
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So, we know a few bits… but yeah, there’s something in the friendster thing. The assorted articles linked to were more interesting than friendster switching though.
feo

December 5th, 2005 at 02:44
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