{"id":579,"date":"2005-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/06\/28\/514\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T22:00:00","slug":"514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/06\/28\/514\/","title":{"rendered":"Why PHP Scales &#8211; A Cranky, Snarky Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Schlossnagle &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schlossnagle.org\/~george\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/29-Why-PHP-Scales-A-Cranky,-Snarky-Answer.html\" title=\"Why PHP Scales - A Cranky, Snarky Answer - George's Blog\">Why PHP Scales &#8211; A Cranky, Snarky Answer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;In every application I&#8217;ve ever worked on application performance was governed by the following factors, in rough order of their importance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stupid use of network resources<\/li>\n<li>stupid use of databases<\/li>\n<li>stupid algorithm design<\/li>\n<li>stupidly ignoring contention issues<\/li>\n<li>stupid language inefficiencies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notice how PHP being naturally slower than Java (something I believe to be true) comes in last? That&#8217;s a distant last.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Schlossnagle &#8211; Why PHP Scales &#8211; A Cranky, Snarky Answer: &#8222;In every application I&#8217;ve ever worked on application performance was governed by the following factors, in rough order of their importance: stupid use of network resources stupid use of databases stupid algorithm design stupidly ignoring contention issues stupid language inefficiencies Notice how PHP being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}