> since its shared-nothing (sans caches) runtime model is almost CGI-like and can, in my experience, lead to higher latency, as each request simply does more. M

> since its shared-nothing (sans caches) runtime model is almost CGI-like and can, in my experience, lead to higher latency, as each request simply does more. Maybe some experienced PHP devs can tell me how they combat this? I mean, you kind of answered your own question - they use caches like apcu or memcached. Apcu is just shared memory so its basically ends up being very similar to languages that don't do shared nothing.