Thanks, papsosouid. Facts are much more useful to discussions like this. It still doesn't change the fact that PHP is capable of running the most trafficked sites in the world (side note: I don't like PHP, either. I just hate haters who can't see the world in shades of gray). Having heard Facebook engineers speak about MySQL many times, I have not seen any inclination that they are dissatisfied with MySQL as a platform choice. (And please, no one reference on that utterly BS article published on gigaom.com)

The masochism rate is still low, even in these companies.

So, you have no facts, just bias. Thanks.

Them saying that?

http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choo...