Facebook is one of the largest sites on the Internet.
But most people don’t know the story of how it was founded.
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I wrote the other day about social media backup with a new service called Backupify.
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PHP is the programming language that runs many web applications, including WordPress. PHP’s slower than many other languages, but it’s fast to develop in.
Now Facebook, which also runs on PHP, has announced a new version of PHP that runs twice as fast.
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These days many people prefer to have their applications in the cloud, instead of hosting them by themselves.
For example, people who use Gmail prefer accessing e-mail through a web browser instead of downloading their e-mail and viewing it with an e-mail program.
But what happens if Google loses your e-mail? The answer, for some, might be Backupify, a new cloud backup service.
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I was surprised to know that Facebook runs on PHP.
It also uses C++ and Java in places, but it’s the fact that it uses the little scripting language that could (PHP) is what is interesting. Aditya Agarwal of Facebook describes how the social networking giant does it in a presentation at QCon SF 2008.
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