On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Wil Genovese <jugg...@trunkful.com> wrote: > http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/
It's worth pointing out that the person being interviewed, Michael Stonebraker, runs a database company that competes with MySQL (and others) and he's promoting his "NewSQL" database technology over _all_ current SQL and no-SQL solutions so he may be a tiny bit biased :) > From what I understand, PHP is only used as the front end view, ann the code > to do 'work' is c++. Facebook have developed a PHP to C++ translator called HipHop and they use that to convert their code and then compile it to native code to create a faster system: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/ Specifically: "One of the explicit design goals leading into HipHop was the ability to continue writing complex logic directly within PHP." - so they do 'work' in PHP, they do not write C++. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346351 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
