There are many benefits to moving from a single web server to having 2 or more of them. First off your app won’t die when dealing with a failure on that server, commonly known as removing a single point of failure. Secondly the app is more scalable, meaning that if you did the work of making it work with 2 it will probably work with 3 or even more.
However in software development there is no “free lunch” and there are some things you should plan before doing this step. …
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While reviewing the developer communities around PHP in the Bucharest area, I noticed that there are a couple of active meetups on specific PHP topics (like Symphony or Drupal), which are great, but not one that covers a larger spectrum of PHP topics. After all, being a PHP developer means knowing a lot more than just knowing PHP or a specific PHP framework. Another observation is that, while those groups catered very well for senior developers, there wasn’t much content for the others.
Thus we decided to launch a new meetup with a few goals in…
Message queues are an easy way to handle many performance issues in web apps. For example, you might have a frontend app that takes orders in an e-commerce store but the order processing process might be slow and you don’t want to hog the whole system. An easy fix is to put the order on a queue and process it later. In this article I will be using RabbitMQ as a reference messaging system.
Queues also give you predictability over your resources. Since the resources used are determined by the consumers that read from the queues this will always be…
Andrei Pirvulet
I'm a software development manager that loves creating awesome teams and tackle large and challenging projects
