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This is exactly why I decided to use PHP for my startup. I have something along these lines that I hope to blog about in the coming weeks (I tested php-fpm on nginx/go/node.js/silk.js and php won by a landslide when it came to speed). I would love to see php-fpm on nginx included in this test.
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It's funny you should put this together because in an earlier draft of this blog entry I had created a tongue-in-cheek unit to express the average cost per additional line of code. Based on our Cake PHP numbers, I wanted to describe PHP as having the highest average cost per line of code. But we dropped this because I felt it ultimately wasn't fair to say that based on the limited data we had and it could be easily i…
For Play, you'll want to either 1) handle the (blocking) database queries using Futures/Actors that use a separate thread pool (this might be easier to do in Scala) or 2) bump the default thread pool sizes considerably. The default configuration is optimized purely for non-blocking I/O. See e.g. https://github.com/playframework/Play20/blob/master/document... and https://gist.github.com/guillaumebort/2973705 for more…
This detail shows that this kind of benchmark as nice as it reads could misleads since the authors have much experience with JVM based stuff. Thus, the JVM based framework tests seem to be much more optimized or only most performant libs were chosen whilst the other framework tests just lack domain knowledge.
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I too was shocked at the deltas between Amazon and dedicated hardware. I think AWS runs on Xen, so I wonder if you could strike a more optimal performance/flexibility balance using lighter virtualization (LXC or OpenVZ) with either in-house hardware or another VPS provider.
While it is true that EC2 runs on a customized version of Xen, it's very unlikely that latency is being introduced by the hypervisor itself. With paravirtualized kernel and drivers, Xen introduces negligible overhead, and thus LXC would likely be no better. The reason that the virtualized setup performs more poorly than the dedicated setup is that you are fighting for CPU time with other AWS customers, so those other…
http://uggedal.com/journal/vps-performance-comparison/
Amazon performance is surprisingly low, but also surprisingly consistent. For some use cases, consistency (knowing what you get you for what you pay) might be worth a considerable hit in performance.
There is a huge difference between raw PHP and CakePHP. I'd be curious to see other PHP frameworks (such as Zend, or Slim) in there-- is Cake just particularly slow, or is that simply what happens when you have a PHP framework?
Also, it would be beneficial to see Phalcon PHP - its implemented as a C extension so should theoretically be faster. http://phalconphp.com .
I really hope the author picks up on this and compares it. It could provide some tremendous insights into pushing PHP further into this space.
pfalls - amazingly, I spent the last 2 days of my holiday doing the same thing for a future open source project. I was just stumped when I saw you guys did the same (could have saved me a couple of days!) I wanted to find the leanest Web framework on any kind of platform; but the difference from your approach - I already knew the kind of code that would run on it. I tested: Go, Java (servlet, dropwizard), Scala (scal…