RE: highscalability.com report

Well, finding (good) developers is certainly an issue.

Here in NYC, it's very difficult to find proper Perl programmers as opposed to dabblers and scripters.

One of the larger web sites here in the city was built by a great Perl guy, but as they've grown and become successful, finding Perl talent has become a big issue.  I'm told that they're somewhere down the road to moving to PHP.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:02 PM
> To: Clinton Gormley; Jim Schueler
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: highscalability.com report
> 
> From: "Clinton Gormley" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: highscalability.com report
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 22:50 -0400, Jim Schueler wrote:
> >> Hope this doesn't get trapped by too many spam filters.
> >>
> >> Sad news.  Just saw a blog
> >>
> >>    http://www.highscalability.com/
> >>
> >> that reports YouPorn.com switched from Perl to PHP.  Apparently
> there's a
> >> reported 10% improvement in speed, but I haven't noticed :).
> >
> > I think the bigger factor in the speed improvement is probably to do
> > with switching from MySQL to Redis
> >
> 
> 
> Yeah, so there should be other reasons for passing from Perl to PHP.
> 
> What could be?
> 
> Octavian


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