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Friendster: switch to PHP

by Harry Fuecks

This post has 13 responses so far

1. tsigo Says:
   June 29th, 2004 at 7:26 pm

   Wow, it’s a lot faster. A lot.

    
2. z0s0 Says:
   June 29th, 2004 at 7:52 pm

   ahh nothing like seeing a PHP error on php.net ;-)

   http://talks.php.net/show/lt2004-lamp/1

    
3. andre Says:
   June 30th, 2004 at 12:52 am

   could it be that their Java implementation was badly-engineered, that’s why its performance was substandard before?

    
4. Martin Hjort Eriksen Says:
   June 30th, 2004 at 6:14 am

   This is a funny result. I am my self a PHP enthusiast, but i the journal “ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 31 Issue 3″ there was an article called “A performance comparison of dynamic Web technologies” where Perl, Java server technolgy (also tomcat) and Perl was benchmarked in a labratory environment. It was concluded that Serverside Java outpreformed PHP and Perl by a factor 8.

    
5. Dangermouse Says:
   June 30th, 2004 at 6:34 am

   Well now Friendster have changed, im sure Microsoft will follow suite soon ;)

    
6. jasonlotito Says:
   June 30th, 2004 at 10:05 am

   A testing environment is one thing. Production is another. If a developer moves from X to Y, and things speed up and improve because of it, no amount of tests is going to change the fact that moving from X to Y speed thigns up.

    
7. cagrET Says:
   June 30th, 2004 at 12:40 pm

   http://talks.php.net/show/lt2004-lamp/7

   > No $_COOKIE for you

   What does it mean ?

    
8. NativeMind Says:
   July 1st, 2004 at 6:39 pm

   I believe it means that $_SESSION is much faster than $_COOKIE

    
9. marcel Says:
   July 2nd, 2004 at 1:33 pm

   Clickz.com used to run on Tomcat and JSP at some point. They also turned to PHP a year or so ago. In fact the whole Internet.com network runs most of it’s content on PHP

   Marcel
   http://computingdiary.com

    
10. Perrin Harkins Says:
    July 3rd, 2004 at 6:10 pm

    Martin Ericksen needs to actually read that ACM article if he’s going to attempt to quote from it. It does NOT say that Java outperforms PHP and Perl by a factor of 8. What it does say is that using any kind of dynamic generation is up to 8 times slower than static pages. This should surprise no one.

     
11. pointbeing Says:
    August 19th, 2004 at 4:30 am

    Yahoo, Internet.com, now Friendster. I’m not surprised - in my previous work at a web agency, about two thirds of our business came from companies moving to Open Source, away from ASP and Java. About 30% was from one company alone - a major European auto manufacturer who were thoroughly disappointed with their JSP solution.

    The only question left is, how long before Amazon migrate? ;)

     
12. GeorgeB. Says:
    November 29th, 2004 at 12:03 pm

    All in all, if they’re happy, and their site runs faster, it was a good decision.

    Q - http://www.halofans.com

     
13. anon Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 7:50 am

    could it be because of a reconsilidating stand point? Where php developers are cheaper than J2EE / .NET devs?

     

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