Re: Facebook has SQL Problems...

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PHP doesn't scale?? Don't tell Facebook that... 

On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Alan wrote:

> A friend that is a dot-net specialist told me PHP "doesn't scale".
>
> I grinned and said oh yeah? How many SQL servers do you need for your 
> application?
>
>
> On 7/8/2011 9:42 AM, Mike Wills wrote:
> > I think they need to spend some of Mark's moldy money and buy a few IBM is
> > to take the load.
> > http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/
> >
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> > Mike Wills
> > http://mikewills.me
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