From InfoWorld article: “The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid“:
IT managers who look only as far as J2EE and .Net when developing scalable Web apps are making a mistake by not taking a second look at scripting languages — particularly PHP. This scripting language has been around for a decade now, and millions of Yahoo pages are served by PHP each day.…
The stateless “shared-nothing” architecture of PHP means that each request is handled independently of all others, and simple horizontal scaling means adding more boxes. Any bottlenecks are limited to scaling a back-end database. Languages such as PHP might not be the right solution for everyone, but pre-emptively pushing scripting languages aside when there are proven scalability successes is a mistake.
Oh yeah, if you didn’t know… Yahoo uses PHP. A billion page requests per day, beeatch!
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PHP rules! It’s got a simple syntax like ASP, it’s powerful like PERL… and you don’t need Microsoft crap to run it. Okay, just geeking out for a sec.
I meant to leave a comment on your blog a couple of days ago, but I’m a slacker, so I didn’t. Thanks for the link!
Aww, look at this. My first comment on Amber’s site! Ain’t that so… goddamn… sweet? This is the part where I force a year-old thread into the recent comments section.