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To be fair, FB struggled to scale with PHP, although it certainly fares better out of the box (even then). A lot of their work has gone into making PHP more pe
by nkozyra 10y ago
To be fair, FB struggled to scale with PHP, although it certainly fares better out of the box (even then). A lot of their work has gone into making PHP more performant and better by way of Hack.
PHP7 took a lot of great ideas from Hack but is still saddled with its legacy.
- rythie 10y agoThey did? I remember numerous Twitter outages due to scale and the infamous Fail Whale. Twitter's issues risked the company losing users or even it's sustainability as a business. Never remember Facebook having much issue.