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0 pointssdze4y ago0 comments

C#, Java, C++ need application servers, no?

"Serverless" scales infinitely due to its simpler request/response lifecycle.

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Serverless is too overloaded a term to have any meaning. I'm not really seeing how Python or PHP "scales infinitely" in any way that C#, Java, C++ couldn't.

tored4y ago

PHP is usually easier to scale because it just a matter of how many webservers. e.g. apache or nginx, you choose to deploy. This also possible with other platforms, but can be a bit trickier to get right.

For large PHP setups it is usually the number of database connections that is the limiting factor, however that is why historically the replicated MySQL databases was such a good fit for PHP, thus only creating a limit for writes on the master.

_6pvr4y ago

> For large PHP setups it is usually the number of database connections that is the limiting factor,

For pretty much every modern programming language, IO is the bottleneck over everything else.

To save you some time, there are practically no metrics in which I think PHP beats another programming language other than maturity, and even then, not really.

swiley4y ago

Php needs an application server as well.

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