Flickr has been getting some positive buzz. Cal Henderson’s presentation of PHP and Flickr (PDF) as been making the rounds of the PHP Blogs. Some of the best:
I had hoped that that the friendster php implementation details would be developed into a case study. But, that didn’t turn out well.
I am looking forward to seeing Marco Tabini’s PHP case study website. There really does seem to be interest and a demand for PHP case studies.
One point from the Flickr presentation:
PHP isn’t so great at being a daemon… Leaks memory like a sieve
This doesn’t seem to bode well for all those who want a java style PHP application server.
UPDATE: Normalized data is for sissies.
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Would be nice to have clarified. I guess he’s referring to PHP’s garbage collection and the way circular references are handled as opposed to a leak where there’s no way to recover the memory at all.
Couple of relevant links
http://blog.core10.co.uk/2004/09/php-5-garbage-collection.html
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30053
Would expect there’s a definitive answer to be found from the Nanoweb developers.
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I would not agree.. from my experiences, where I am running heavy batch processes, I have cli php scripts running for almos over six months, which sleeps for 2 seconds, and does some job, then again repeats the cycle.
This would be more on sloppy code, which you can achieve by developing in any language, I have seen people crashing systems with runaway code that uses recursions and with connection pools.
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