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Slack using php. Most people recoil from it but their reasons were sound and they played well off its strengths and planned for and mitigated its weaknesses.
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
Slack using php.
Most people recoil from it but their reasons were sound and they played well off its strengths and planned for and mitigated its weaknesses.
- infamouscow 4y agoA lot can be said for having an engineering team with the experience and maturity to recognize both strengths and weaknesses of their technology choices.
- actually_a_dog 4y agoWhat were their reasons?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoThey wrote a blog post about it but it's been a few years since I read it. IIRC it centered on the inherently stateless request model and how that interacts with the way they wanted to do concurrency.
- kephasp 4y agohttps://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/ https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/