[SGVLUG] PHP question

[Sean O'Donnell]

On 02/25/2016 05:42 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Facebook's use of php is not as bad as the average use, see
> https://www.quora.com/Why-hasn-t-Facebook-migrated-away-from-PHP

Facebook is a great example, despite my animosity towards their entire 
existence. If someone can't accept that one of the busiest sites in the 
world relies heavily on that scripting language, then it's a pointless 
conversation that falls on deaf ears.

Similarly, where I work, we've been using PHP to control a cluster of 
stress test automation racks, which help hammer thousands of STBs, and 
aggregate the data for post-process analysis and automated bug reporting.

The biggest draw-back for us, was the lack of native support for process 
threading, which was rather easy to overcome.

We've moved away from perl/expect/bash to mostly all PHP for the CLI 
automation (object) library and scripts. This helped us consolidate code 
between the CLI environment, web application interface, linux 
administration automation tools, embedded systems, and REST API.

No animals were harmed in this process, except for the stress rack monkey.

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> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Sean O'Donnell<sean at seanodonnell.com>  wrote:
>> On 02/23/2016 10:33 AM, Dustin Laurence wrote:
>>> If that's aimed at me, then I'll proudly own any slur that is required in
>>> order to do my duty to public health in discouraging PHP use when feasible.
>>> Dustin
>>
>> Seems you should be preaching to all those mentally-defunct Facebook
>> developers. They seem to need their heads examined (obvious), and perhaps an
>> intervention (or possibly castration).