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[nycphp-talk] PHP Scales, Our Chris Shiflett gets /.'d

Mitch Pirtle mitchy at spacemonkeylabs.com
Tue Jul 6 09:53:51 EDT 2004


Chris Shiflett wrote:

>I guess I was also tired of hearing the false claims that Java scales and
>PHP doesn't, since it's much easier to argue the other way around. Of
>course, my argument that PHP naturally scales well doesn't take into
>account that most of the applications we write use sessions, a database,
>and the like. For a moderately complex application, PHP does not naturally
>scale, and it's just as hard to make it scale as it is to make Java scale,
>but I wasn't going to argue both sides. :-)
>  
>

Well, your website certainly didn't scale.  (rimshot)

;^P

- Mitch



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