One important area I forgot to mention in my overview of PHP application server farm considerations is monitoring. How will you know how to tune your farm for performance, or when it is time to add a new server or two to the mix? When it comes to understanding individual server performance and health, cacti …
Since we are now starting to see news reports about the latest release of PHP, and since these reports seem to be spinning this release as a knock against PHP, I thought I’d offer some context. My understanding is that the biggest security problem this release fixes is an infinite loop/buffer overflow problem with getimagesize, …
Even though issue 03.05 is not out yet, I am already deep in thought about my next article for International PHP Magazine. I’m planning to tap my experience architecting and building scalable web server farms for PHP/MySQL applications to bring you an overview of the issues involved. Combined with the forthcoming issue on Enterprise PHP …
An associate of mine recently asked for some metrics to help him back up their decision to move away from JSP and toward PHP. In a recent post, I looked at the fact that many major corporations are using PHP, yet we rarely hear about it. To help address some of the concerns about deploying …
A kindred spirit has come along to remind me that the journey toward PHP excellence is worth every step. Here is a great email from Bart at capital-b.com (republished with his permission) along with my response:
I happened across an article on a pretty interesting topic: a Lotus Notes client for Linux. Unfortunately, I think the author (and perhaps Big Blue itself) is missing an important point: Notes has always championed OS-independence. If you move a file using the filesystem, you are sternly reprimanded by Notes and told, in effect, that …
