New linked-in group only for PHP Contractors in UK

[newbie-rookie]

newbie-rookie,

are you a cat too ?

Milan.

I have no idea what cat is sorry.

[NickFitz]

FWIW Yahoo! runs on PHP (including properties such as flickr and del.icio.us). To be precise, PHP 5 using the Symfony framework.

So PHP, used effectively, is capable of handling around 3.5 billion page views per day from around the world, with appropriate horizontal scaling.

Relational databases at Y! are either mySQL or Oracle.

Of course they have some requirements for scaling capacity and responsiveness that no relational database now extant could ever cope with, which are met by custom distributed file systems - a bit like the way Google uses the proprietary BigTable architecture for its various indices. I believe the low-level drivers for such things are written in C. But you only need to worry about that kind of stuff when you have hundreds of millions of users

[bogeyman]

FWIW Yahoo! runs on PHP (including properties such as flickr and del.icio.us). To be precise, PHP 5 using the Symfony framework.

So PHP, used effectively, is capable of handling around 3.5 billion page views per day from around the world, with appropriate horizontal scaling.

Relational databases at Y! are either mySQL or Oracle.

Of course they have some requirements for scaling capacity and responsiveness that no relational database now extant could ever cope with, which are met by custom distributed file systems - a bit like the way Google uses the proprietary BigTable architecture for its various indices. I believe the low-level drivers for such things are written in C. But you only need to worry about that kind of stuff when you have hundreds of millions of users

Good injection of facts there, me old bonobo.

It amuses me that things like .NET are used for comparatively small applications (web-wise) whereas 'noddy' technologies like PHP and MySQL drive some of the biggest applications ever seen.