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Improving PHP Performance for Web Applications

KeyCDN

Today, PHP is one of the most widely used server-side scripting languages, powering some of the biggest websites on the internet, including Facebook, Wikipedia, and WordPress. In 2015, PHP 7.0 In recent years, PHP has also seen the introduction of new versions.

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Progressive Web Apps and the Future of Mobile Web

DZone

It’s a revolution that has changed the way people access information over the internet. Statista shares insightful data on mobile web traffic that accounts for more than 50% globally from 1st quarter 2015 to 3rd quarter 2020. The digital consumption over the years has been through a radical change.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

High Scalability

While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? Debt skyrocketing. It all looks good when capital is cheap I guess. slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. At some point, the e-mail I send over WiFi will hit a wire, of course".

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part 1)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Adoption is now really starting to explode in 2015 as more and more businesses understand the power analytics has to empower their organizations.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?

High Scalability

While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet.