On PHP and Scaling

jpkunst writes "Chris Shiflett at oreillynet.com summarizes (with lots of links) a discussion about scalability, brought about by Friendster's move from Java to PHP. Chris argues that PHP scales well, because it fits into the Web's fundamental architecture. 'I think PHP scales well because Apache scales well because the Web scales well. PHP doesn't try to reinvent the wheel; it simply tries to fit into the existing paradigm, and this is the beauty of it.' (The article is also available on Chris' own website.)"

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Re:Gah, no!

[Prowl]

but he didn't use the phrase "paradigm shift", so we could give him the benefit of the doubt

Re:PHP scales down, too

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right.

however, if you wrote the same thing about Visual Basic / ASP, you would have been modded a troll.

Re:Scalability and Maintainability go hand in hand

[Anthony Boyd]

What unique attributes of perl do you believe contribute to your claim that perl "can become unmaintainable on a small project"?

I bet he heard that from good old Tim Towtdi!

;)