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0 pointsjstewartmobile9y ago0 comments

If your problem is speed, Ruby & Python probably aren't going to help. Query optimizations typically yield a lot of bang for the buck. Once you've harvested all of the low-hanging fruit there, in-memory caching (memcached, redis) can also bring a lot to the table.

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odonnellryan9y ago· 5 in thread

Ruby and Python could help -- but depends what you're doing. They aren't going to magically make your DB queries faster... but certain libraries can perform many, many times faster.

Though, that's the library, not the language.

Those languages won't be faster, they're pretty much the same speed. The labor cost of the rewrite would completely dwarf any possible micro-gains from switching between 2 languages that are already nearly the same speed.

odonnellryan9y ago

PHP can be faster than Python, but I'm not aware of anything existing in the PHP space like NumPy.

it also helps to find more programmers here in the bayarea if i switch to ruby, node etc all the cool programming dudes that i want to hire -are not in php.

odonnellryan9y ago

Not many devs want to work on PHP codebases, that's absolutely correct. PHP does not really look great on the resume, unfortunately.

But you should be hiring to solve a problem -- seemingly speed and reliability, in your case -- not for a language.

But yeah, tell them what stack they will be working on ;)

jstewartmobileOP9y ago

If you were almost anywhere else, you'd have a much easier time finding .NET developers, but then there's the whole licensing can of worms (and .NET core isn't really a viable alternative at the moment).

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