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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. 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. Youre right php can get ugly when used inline with html.

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