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spahl | 13 years ago | on: PHP: the quiet powerhouse

This does not justify chosing PHP for a new project.

There are hundreds of examples that show how bad PHP really is. Why make the choice of using a broken language when there are so many better alternatives?

I strongly believe that using a complex, non consistent and hard to debug language actually slows down development and is even dangerous.

Being "absolutly everywhere" is not an argument. COBOL, PASCAL and FORTRAN used to be everywhere too.

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Flask + Nginx + Gunicorn(on a Vagrant box)

Not to mention a lot of other useful features if you don't mind becoming dependent on it.

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Anyone know of a high traffic CDN?

You can set up custom caching rules with longer cache TTLs if you want to minimize origin pulls. Use Page Rules or the Cache TTL from the CloudFlare settings page.

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Anyone know of a high traffic CDN?

CloudFlare doesn't charge for bandwidth. Your bandwidth levels not an issue. Check out their network graph to see current stats: http://www.cloudflare.com/network-map

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Anyone know of a high traffic CDN?

CloudFlare is a very nice service for that. As an example you can read that blog post: http://blog.cloudflare.com/moog-music-staying-online-when-go...

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Python Deployment Anti-Patterns

The uwsgi upstream module has been bundled for a long time now.

Here is the doc from the uwsgi site: http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/RunOnNginx

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter

Does Kickstarter get a cut?

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Why You Should Move To Berlin

http://www.6wunderkinder.com/ is one example.

spahl | 14 years ago | on: My Year of Riak

Another operation to avoid is map/reduce over a whole bucket (so called "bucket scans"). It is extremely heavy and can often be replaced with a more clever schema.

spahl | 14 years ago | on: ZeroMQ =/= Erlang

ZeroMQ might not bring the complete power of Erlang to other programming languages but what it brings is, at least in my opinion, the most powerful and interesting part!

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you using Riak? What for?

Do you use luwak to store the videos or are they small enough?

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you using Riak? What for?

Out of curiosity, did you try riak_search as a solr replacement?

spahl | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you using Riak? What for?

At dotCloud we use PostgreSQL, Riak and redis.

- PostgreSQL for the user database since it maps nicely to django and sqlalchemy models

- Redis for caches and non persistent data

- Riak for everything else

We love the fact that it is easy to scale, that bitcask is safe (it writes to disk:-p) and easy to backup (rsync or cp is enough).

spahl | 15 years ago | on: DotCloud acquires Duostack, rolls out MongoDB support

Yes tornado/gunicorn/thin/... support is planned. Stay tuned!