Re: HipHop for PHP

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do any of you use Facebook regularly, especially the more involved 
"apps"?  Zynga puts out what are probably the most complex applications 
(their Mafia Wars game is an example).  They look very cool, but if you 
follow them at all, you'll find that the reliability is absolutely 
horrible.  Whether it's serious bugs, bad versions of code rolled out, 
loss of persistent data (that's a database crash to you and me) or just 
plain crappy code, the environment is definitely not something I'd want 
to install in my clients' production systems.

Now, we may be comparing apples and ostriches here - Zynga is a 
semi-free game on a social networking site - but I also suspect it's at 
least partly due to the architecture, and more importantly to an 
infrastructure that wasn't designed to be an enterprise environment.

Joe