Episode 5: The Hammer That is PHP

In our fifth episode we speak to our first ever guest Brian Moon,
ancient PHP elder of dealnews and someone who has probably
forgotten more about PHP than our two hosts will ever know. Chris
admires his stamina for staying with the same employer for 14
years and counting.


In this episode we talk about dealnews, how they use PHP (and how
they also use it in some interesting ways), and his thoughts on
issues like concurrency and evented systems. We also cover
features of PHP that allowed for some major changes and
approaches they used in the code base for the site.


Feel free to hit us up on Twitter or harras Ed and Chris
directly.


Download now (MP3, 41MB, 1:14:37)
Links

Node.js

Evented programming in PHP

Gearman

Brian’s customized native Gearman library

Brian’s Gearman Manager

Squid

Varnish

Building PHP extension