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Pretty sure there's plenty of PHP at Amazon and Facebook (just with slightly different names)

• jonhohle 2y ago
  There is no PHP at Amazon (at least not 2009-2016). It was evaluated before my time there and Perl Mason was chosen instead to replace C++. A bunch if that’s still appears to exist (many paths that start with gp/) but a lot was being rebuilt in various internal Java frameworks. I know AWS had some rails apps that were being migrated to Java a decade ago, but I don’t think I ever encountered PHP (and I came in as a programmer primarily writing PHP).
  • dr_kretyn 2y ago
    Ok, my "pretty sure" turns out to be "not sure at all". Thank you for the refresher! I was thinking about Mason and somehow conflated Perl with PHP. I left Amazon 2020. Had various collaborations with ecommerce (mainly around fulfillment) and there was plenty of Mason around.
    • jonhohle 2y ago
      I was probably one of the few who enjoyed Mason and still think the aggregator framework was great. We implemented a work-a-like in Java on Prime and it worked great there as well. It was effectively GraphQL before GraphQL, but local and remote, async, polymorphic, and extremely flexible. Not being in that world anymore I’m not sure if there is anything else quite like it, but there really should be.
• joeframbach 2y ago
  I can *assure* you that php is expressly prohibited for use at Amazon.
  • johnisgood 2y ago
    Really? How come? What is the history with regarding to that? What are their reasoning? Does it apply to PHP >=8?