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I’m not a PHP programmer but I used to be. It’s hard to overstate the simplicity of the deployment model. Your competitors will spend tens of thousands of perso
by closeparen 6y ago
I’m not a PHP programmer but I used to be. It’s hard to overstate the simplicity of the deployment model. Your competitors will spend tens of thousands of person-hours chasing their tails around Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Ansible/Puppet/Chef, etc. while you spend 15 seconds FTPing your source code around. LAMP stack achieved the “serverless” dream before many of today’s engineers were even born.
- mgkimsal 6y ago> Your competitors will spend tens of thousands of person-hours chasing their tails around Docker, Kubernetes There are people who use all that stuff to deploy PHP-based apps too, though. One doesn't preclude the other.
- megous 6y agoAlso ad hoc in-production debugging/observability is kinda easy. ssh to your server, add a log statement to code. Done. I can't do that with a node app by default without restarting it, killing all connections, etc.
- jrsj 6y agohow is that any easier than dropping a fat jar or a binary on a server? its not like building those is difficult
- sjy 6y agoAnalogous to the ‘serverless’ platforms, there are many companies selling shared PHP hosting, so you can just upload your code and expect it to work without worrying about security updates, service management, configuring TLS, etc.
- closeparen 6y agoA fat jar dropped on a server doesn’t just run. You need something else to run the process, restart it if it crashes, manage log output, etc. PHP is served as soon as it’s dropped into a DocumentRoot.