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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand.

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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. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. Youre right php can get ugly when used inline with html.

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