[Typo3-dev] Typo3 Application Server [I am a non-off-topic-thread, read me!]

[Robert Lemke]

Robert Lemke wrote:

> Hi Bernhard,
> 
> I have thought about this kind of thing a lot and, so far, concluded
> that TYPO3 is the RIGHT thing.
> 
> On the snowboard tour I talked with some people about the idea of creating
> an application server for TYPO3. The discussion also went so far that we
> asked ourselves if TYPO3 should be coded in PHP in the future.
> 
> Some of our conclusions were:
> 
>  - The bottleneck is NOT PHP. PHP is actually quite fast.
> 
>  - Writing a deamon in PHP is no problem. You don't need a cron job nor
>    do you have to cheat with timeouts, you can just program a proper
>    daemon with forking and such like you can do in perl for example.
> 
>  - One of TYPO3s bottlenecks is possibly its statelessness. Take the
>    frontend user sessions as an example: At each page hit we have to
>    query the database for getting the FE session and also write it
>    back at some point. If we had a daemon which held that information
>    for a certain time in memory, we don't have to have so many DB /
>    file accesses.
> 
> All that would require some event based archtitecture in the core of
> TYPO3. I talked a lot with René about it and we are very confident that we
> will put that into practise. It will also open new doors for controling
> TYPO3 remotely via SOAP et al.
> 
> Anyways, what I would like to say is: I'm totally in favour of checking
> out the pros and cons of a PHP based TYPO3 application server, so just go
> ahead, I'll support it in the best way I can.
> 

-- 
robert