Yeah... and a little hacked together PHP can be the top edge of that stack if you want, but I sure hope it's not handling the important business logic on the ba

Yeah... and a little hacked together PHP can be the top edge of that stack if you want, but I sure hope it's not handling the important business logic on the back end of your internal message bus et cetera. In fact, just about any other language in the world would probably be a better choice.