Published on 2006-04-11 07:21:04
It's interesting to notice also that Digg is in the process of preparing to scale to 10 times current load, not by increasing headcount but by switching to a different database platform. And this is also not a PHP related issue, Brian concluded "It turns out that it really is fast and cheap to develop applications in PHP. Most scaling and performance challenges are almost always related to the data layer, and are common across all language platforms. Even as a self-proclaimed PHP evangelist, I was very startled to find out that all of the theories I was subscribing to were true."
This is interesting to see experience of some successful websites running PHP and how they deal with scalability and performance issues. The major issue is always database related and of course hardware depending on the website's load.
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