Archive for February 3, 2010

Scaling PHP : HipHop and Quercus

While PHP is very popular, it unfortunately doesn’t perform as some of its competitors. One of the ways to make things faster is to write PHP Extensions in C++. In this post we will describe two different ways developers can solve this problem and the milage you might get from either model may vary.
Since Facebook [...]

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Cloud : Agility vs Security

Networking devices on the edges have become smarter over time. So have the firewalls and switches used internally within the networks. Whether we like it or not, web applications over time have grown to depend on them.
Its impossible to build a flawless product because of which its standard practice to disable all unused services on [...]

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