big companies have problems normal devs normally don't run into - this is why they come up with this sort of stuff. facebook has serious trouble keeping up with the growth and if some technology means you can save a couple of hundred servers it is more then worth looking into it.
they have problems none of us ever dreamt of - or how many of us ran into the problem that a loadbalancer ran out of OS level ports available and therefor was actually a bottleneck. if you play in that league your game has changed seriously - but if we look at what came out of those serious problems those guys solved already we can find a lot of useful stuff. loadbalancing and lightweight webservers (like lighttpd or nginx) became widely adopted, memcached is nothing alien anymore and lots of other cool stuff. keep playing with all that and you'll have the right tools when you need them. running that website that gets 5 hits a month on the hiphop engine is probably a waste of time though ... cheers lenz On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Jevon Wright <[email protected]> wrote: >> i really feeled, those guys in big company just have too much time. > > Well if it saved them 50% CPU overhead, I don't think it was a waste of time > :-) > > Jevon > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:59 AM, anru chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yahoo used to use c lagnuage to build web site, then moved to php. >> >> i really feeled, those guys in big company just have too much time. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:19 AM, lenz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > hi, >> > >> > in case someone missed the announcement of facebook today. they open >> > sourced their php to c++ compiler today: >> > >> > http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=358 >> > >> > cheers >> > lenz >> > >> > >> > -- >> > iWantMyName.com >> > painless domain registration (finally) >> > >> > -- >> > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >> > To post, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe, send email to >> > [email protected] >> >> -- >> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- iWantMyName.com painless domain registration (finally) -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
