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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Enough about that. Im curious.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. Theres no complex algorithm to go wrong, just a simple lookup table. And implementing it is easy, too.