NYCPHP Meetup

[Cliff Hirsch]

On 4/4/07 9:58 PM, "Nate Abele" <nate at cakephp.org> wrote:
> The Yahoo! team had to re-architect several parts of the framework to
> get it to do what they wanted.  Regardless of that, I hear they were
> having some significant scaling issues.  The Firefox Add-ons portal
> (https://addons.mozilla.org/) was built on CakePHP, and you can check
> out the source code here: http://svn.mozilla.org/addons/trunk/site/
> app/.  To date, the site has handled the arguably higher load without
> a hitch.
> 
> - Nate

Do you have any additional insight into what "scaling issues" means?
Database overload? Session problems? Bloated "helpers? Their YAML is
compiled and caching is part of the framework, so I'm curious where the pain
points are versus say...for example...Cake.

Cliff