Okay, stage is set (by the way, this was tested on his local machine). By comparison and simple HTML page with nothing but 'Hello World' served by Apache is just over 600 req/sec. By hand-tuning it he was able to get on the order of 280 req/sec. This does a lot of database calls and a lot of behind the scenes work. In our newly emerging age of energy awareness this does become an important aspect and I am glad that he is raising awareness.īack to frameworks, he started by discussing a database heavy Twitter mashup that he created. If programs were more efficient it would cut the number of data centres and would reduce energy needs as a result. He continues on by stating that PHP developers really need to think about performance for not only scalability reasons but for green reasons. Not only are they slow, but their 'jack-of-all-trades' attitude leads developers down the wrong path by not using what is best for the job.

In his address he choose to highlight PHP frameworks (Drupal was not spared) and how poor they are at performance. Just a short background, Rasmus Lerdorf is the creator of PHP and still continues as a core developer to the PHP project. Refreshing would another way to describe it, I enjoy hearing real opinions and not holding back - Rasmus doesn’t hold back. This is the fist time I have heard Rasmus Lerdorf speak and it was entertaining to say the least.

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