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PHP, Seriously!
Keith Adams examines the strengths that made PHP a dominant language in its niche, highlighting Facebook's attempts at remedying its inconsistencies and misfeatures while maintaining its strengths.
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Taking PHP Seriously
Keith Adams outlines PHP's strengths and Facebook's attempts at remedying the inconsistencies and misfeatures in the core language.
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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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The HipHop Compiler for PHP
Guilherme Ottoni presents the design, implementation, and an evaluation of the HipHop compiler for PHP.
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Platform Choices on Windows Azure (It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server)
Mark Rendle introduces the basic services offered by Windows Azure along with examples of various platform choices that can be used: RavenDB, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js + Express, MongoDB, Sinatra, etc.
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Evolution of Code Design at Facebook
Nick Schrock presents how Facebook’s code evolved over time, explaining some new constructs – fbobjects, Preparables, Ents - introduced to address the complexities of a large social graph.
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Scale at Facebook
Beside presenting the overall Facebook architecture and scaling solutions used, Aditya Agarwal talks about the iterative process of constantly improving the site, making sure to avoid over-engineering
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Facebook: Science and the Social Graph
Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: PHP, MySQL, Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.
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Running PHP on the JVM with P8
Robert Nicholson discusses the reasons to bring PHP to the JVM, an overview of PHP and P8, PHP characteristics, how PHP functions are compiled, InvokeDynamic and PHP Functions.
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