OSDC : Enterprise PHP

This was a presentation at OSDC 2006 by Thorsten Rinne, a german guy who works for a banking organisation in Germany. He discussed how they use the LAMP stack where the 'P' for them is PHP and the 'M' is Mysql.

They have a lot of largeish data transfers in text/csv files (120GB in one case) which they load into the database and present thru the PHP apps on an Apache web server. Some of their apps present reports to users (bank customers, individuals and organisation) as dynamic PPT files or PDFs. They also do some XML interchange.

He admitted that most of the organisations applications are Java based, so the PHP ones he was talking about where in the minority, but even so the banking industry is very conservative and they have many customers (~ 6 million using one of the apps) so they clearly have a great deal of trust in the robustness of PHP.

One of the attendees asked about performance, and turns out they dont have a great deal of redundancy hardware wise, Thorsten said the only bottleneck they ever have is Mysql and that the PHP apps themselves dont present any probs.

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