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Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by earnubs on Sunday September 05, 2010 @12:11PM (#1664695)
One reason might be the ability to hire quality developers in sufficient numbers. The BBC is big, with developers (both internal BBC and external contracts) working all over the UK on a wide range of output.
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Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by MC27 on Sunday September 05, 2010 @03:00PM (#1664954)
That's what I was thinking. Ruby, Perl and Python are all fine alternatives if you can find people with those skills.
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Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by chromatic on Sunday September 05, 2010 @06:07PM (#1665291)
... or train them.
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Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by bl4k on Sunday September 05, 2010 @01:56PM (#1664833)
and any good developer can pick up and be proficient in PHP quickly
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Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by poundy on Sunday September 05, 2010 @04:58PM (#1665160)
which is in my opinion PHP's greatest strength and greatest weakness. Weakness because not-so-good developers think they are good while writing code using register globals, no input validation, no escaping output, etc..
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