Hi,
today I open my weblog and you are all welcome to read and comment the posts. I hope to share some valuable experience how to write and run web applications. I am programming in different computer languages for about 20 years and the LAMP stack since the late 90s. The "P" stands for Perl first and since 2001 for PHP. Since then I was looking for alternatives to the somehow overpragmatic PHP technology. On the other hand, the market forced me to use rapid technologies. I tried out JAVA and C#, but both seem not to be rapid enough if you program the Web X.0 for business. Today we have better alternatives in Ruby (on Rails) or Groovy (on Grails). With the raise of the Web 2.0 I am facing server loads I never dreamed of, literally many 1000s of PHP hits - per second. This forced me to adopt strategies of load balancing and partitioning. Now I really know about "divide and conquer". The Telcos deal with high loads for years and so they have tools like Erlang to serve them. I gave it a look and it looked strange and beauty. Not as beauty as Haskell, isn't it? Well, whatever you will read here, it is backed up by practice. It's definitely up to you if you believe me or not.
Kind regards,
Ingo
