Archive for August 10th, 2006

Free templates for CakePHP

Aug 10, 2006 in PHP, CakePHP

A blogger residing in Japan… maybe a Japanese, I dunno… converted Contented Designs templates into CakePHP Templates. Feel free to use those “open-source” design!

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PHP can scale

Aug 10, 2006 in Software Engineering, PHP

I will keep this post short. I found a presentation about Flickr’s architecture from John Lim’s blog while google-ing for “smarty with yahoo ui”. John Lim btw, is the developer for ADOdb, a PHP database abstraction library…. and it is one of the BEST one out there IMHO. And I am proud that he is a Malaysian. =D



After looking at the 41 slides on Flickr’s architecture… it has made me rethink the way I design web applications. I used to normalize my database design all the way… (thx to uni lectures) but doing that would sacrifice performance as “JOIN” are expensive operations. I might wanna start exploring database session instead of using web server’s session. Replication sounds great as well. 1 master database server for insert/update/delete and a farm of replicated database servers for ’select’, since almost 50% of database transactions are select statements. Anyway, I am just repeating what is written in the presentation, so download and read about it yourself. ^_^



*p.s. but try not to over-engineer… a habit which I do often.

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