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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

I’m largely talking about whether to use an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and to some extent, how much to rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers or write your own application components. Apps & Software Dev & Design Django IaaS PaaS PastCGI Rails Saas Software Startups WSGI'

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe. How we designed the tests. PHP 5.3.10.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe. How we designed the tests. PHP 5.3.10.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

Please note that my design suggestions ain’t black nor white. For the sake of this pamphlet I assume we’re dealing with a well structured site, hosted on Apache with mod_rewrite and PHP available. That allows us to handle each and every HTTP request dynamically with a PHP script. Designating antisocial geeks.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. Personally, I think the best products are designed, architected and built all at the same time. (As I found them by noticing the books that they had around for reading during their downtime at work; books on C++, Perl, PHP, etc.)