web development war stories from the frontlines to the backend

The Problem
I’m sure many have used PHP’s default session handling capabilities. By default, PHP uses the filesystem to store session data naming files with their session id # and putting them in /tmp.
This is done for the sake of simplicity. On a single-server, low load website, this particular setup works fine. It’s [...]

Found some great PHP resources that I’d like to share. I haven’t seen much talk of these so I’m hoping I can help spread the word.
First off libmemcached.
Most PHP folks are familiar with the memcache (note the lack of a ‘d’ in the name) PECL extension. This extension exposes a simple [...]

  

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