RE: Looking for various PHP options running on i

"Rapid dev" and "off IBMi" are mutually exclusive in my experience, but YMMV.

Ref PHP, do you use Windows, .NET, Java, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, Javascript? Do you have support contracts for those? Just food for thought.



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From: Jack Woehr [jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 5:09 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Looking for various PHP options running on i

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why - what possible benefit other than increased complexity and another
failure point?


Jon Paris

Jon --

``I'm glad you asked that ...'' :)

Answer: Two-tier or three-tier is a better architecture for secure, robust
apps drawing data from IBM i.

Microservices allow a factoring of functionality. Delivery of end services
on the second tier is a composition from extant, well-formed verbs.

Microservices are rapid to code and fit in with development sprints.

Let IBM i do what IBM i does best: Store and deliver data.

Let Linux do what Linux does best: provide a development environment and
hosting platform for outward-facing end-user web services.

Why everyone tries to squeeze the web server down onto the IBM i, where it
is harder to develop, runs slower, and exposes the server more to the
outside world, is only barely understandable, though I do understand.

My clients who tried to shoehorn the whole legacy modernization onto the i
itself have all regretted it and moved to multi-tier.

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