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Re:PHP Core Security Audit Results by graemep on Monday April 14, 2025 @05:00AM (#43679404)
> The vast majority of projects will never have to scale to billions of users, so hyperscalability is not a huge concern.

I would have thought PHP would scale very well. It may not be high performance, but its start each request-response cycle from scratch should scale horizontally very well, surely?

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Re:PHP Core Security Audit Results by ahofmann on Monday April 14, 2025 @06:16AM (#43679755)
It does. But scaling to billions of users (or billions of requests per day) is still not easy and you really need high performance for that. Laravel scales to a certain point, where their design decisions (eloquent, the queuing system etc.) are still working.

That said, with today's PHP it is possible to optimize the hot path pretty well with stuff like FFI.

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Re:PHP Core Security Audit Results by tored on Monday April 14, 2025 @06:12AM (#43679737)
Correct, the real bottleneck is almost always the database.
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