Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if "PHP is still relevant?" Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway... happy birthday!

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[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago

What if those chains handle thousands of massages per second?

Serious backend is indeed a stretchy term. And I agree with that point b2b java is common. But our b2b backend handles multiple thousands of massages per second. I find the bottleneck to be MySQL and RabbitMQ.

I think it makes sense for a serious backend to have load balancing and nginx cache and horizontal scaling. I reckon QPS doesn't matter as much as you think it does.

I still don't think that java would be considered niche. I rather think that C or C++ would be considered niche. It takes longer to develop, and is not memory safe so I don't think that most backend systems should consider it.