Flickr Engineers Do It Offline. Flickr wrote their own queuing mechanism (in PHP), and currently run ten queue servers on dedicated hardware for tasks like pushing new photos in to indexes, denormalisation and “backfills” which move data between clusters and run bulk scripts against large numbers of existing rows.
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I don't understand why the ability to do this in PHP is a reason not to use something off-the-shelf, but then again, I don't undestand why PHP in the first place ;)
Dod .. why not ? :cP
Something against PHP ?
hellstrike - 28th September 2008 23:05 - #
Sure. This salad of form, content and no structure makes maintenance hard and security holes easy. Only times sites I was working with got hacked, it was because of some PHP code (not *most* of the times. I'm talking 100%).