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Hey co-founder here. Thanks, we're built on PHP, nginx, Postgres and redis running on AWS.

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• sytse 12y ago
  What performance problems are the hardest to solve? Do you have some performance data?
  • AJSturrock 12y ago
    One of the biggest problems we faced from the offset was optimising our PHP codebase and to get the best response times possible. There was only so much we could do before we hit the limits of the existing system, and turning to HHVM really helped to push our API further. Here's some simple benchmarks we did whilst we were optimising: http://i.imgur.com/vFOXWfl.png http://i.imgur.com/vFOXWfl.png
    • sytse 12y ago
      Thanks for the benchmarks, they look interesting. Any issues you ran into with the HHVM?
      • outrunthewolf 12y ago
        We certainly did. HHVM doesn't support postgres well straight out of the box. We managed to patch a third-party driver to give us the functionality we needed. https://github.com/PocketRent/hhvm-pgsql https://github.com/PocketRent/hhvm-pgsql
        • sytse 12y ago
          Interesting, thanks!
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