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I thought FB's troubles were with mysql not PHP. Turns out mysql has some limiting factors.
by drzaiusapelord 15y ago
I thought FB's troubles were with mysql not PHP. Turns out mysql has some limiting factors.
- Pewpewarrows 15y agoTurns out * has some limiting factors [when serving 1 trillion page views a month]. Replace "*" with any piece of technology on the web stack. There's not a single other company in the world (sans probably Google) that has to deal with performance problems on that level of scale. At that point, I can't imagine anything surviving out-of-the-box. Something has to give, even the language they're using (they're using a subset of PHP that they can run through a custom compiler to C++ machine code, to squeeze every possible CPU cycle out of the servers they have).