Infoworld: How to make PHP scale

The power of PHP and an RDBMS is the ability to nail the major features of an application with cheaply paid developers in a record amount of time. Unfortunately, the default runtime environment used by PHP is simply an unscalable mess.

You can read the rest of my article on why PHP scales so much better in the cloud with NoSQL/NewDB type storage than with a traditional server/RDBMS setup over at InfoWorld.

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