Digitivity » high availability http://digitivity.org The Digital Productivity Blog Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How Facebook Runs PHP and MySQL http://digitivity.org/165/how-facebook-runs-php-and-mysql http://digitivity.org/165/how-facebook-runs-php-and-mysql#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:31:52 +0000 Digitivity http://www.digitivity.org/?p=165 Posted in DeveloperWeb/Software Development

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. [...] Related posts:
  1. Facebook Announces a Better, Faster PHP: HipHop PHP
  2. Creating a Database in MySQL with MySQL Query Browser on Ubuntu Linux
  3. Will the Real MySQL Please Stand Up?
]]> 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.

The story is being discussed on Slashdot here.

Related posts:

  1. Facebook Announces a Better, Faster PHP: HipHop PHP
  2. Creating a Database in MySQL with MySQL Query Browser on Ubuntu Linux
  3. Will the Real MySQL Please Stand Up?

]]> http://digitivity.org/165/how-facebook-runs-php-and-mysql/feed 15