Episode 45: Single Quotes for Web Scale

This week is all about PERSONAL BRANDING and WEB SCALE with
special guest Steve Corona. We talk about Steve’s book Scaling
PHP. We also reminisce about the old days of Twitter API dev,
until Steve humiliates Ed by not knowing what Spaz was.


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Links and Notes

Steve Corona on Twitter

Scaling PHP

Steve’s web site

Life360 (now hiring in SF)

Twitpic

“Miracle on the hudson” plane crash

Double vs single quotes in PHP

Persistent DB connections in PHP

Shared nothing architecture

Horizontal vs. vertical scaling

12 Factor App

Applescript CGI, more