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I'd say they tend not to be handled well in most deployment mechanisms regardless of the language because all moderately complex systems are going to have multi
by rll 16y ago
I'd say they tend not to be handled well in most deployment mechanisms regardless of the language because all moderately complex systems are going to have multiple levels of caching that need to be taken into account when you are trying to update without restarting anything.
This isn't a failure of the deployment tools, by the way, because there is no way to write one that can take everything into account.
- blasdel 16y agoThere is a fundamental difference — PHP is one of the only programming environments for any system in which the minimum viable deployment mechanism is nothing, and for which that approach scales to considerable heights. Other environments demand a base level of sophistication for even a Hello World app to ever execute in the first place.