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State of the LAMP in 2015

The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) has been the mainstay of millions for web developers for well over a decade. But how is it doing and where is it going? Is calling it LAMP even valid any longer? Let's examine this by going through each of the letters in the acronym.


Written by Jani Tarvainen on Saturday October 24, 2015
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MySQL 5.7 brings sexy back with JSON

NoSQL has been the darling of backend developers clamouring for high performance. NoSQL is fine for many uses, but many systems still use MySQL (or other relational databases) for data storage - and will continue to do so in the future.


Written by Jani Tarvainen on Wednesday October 21, 2015
Permalink - Tags: mysql, lamp, php, nosql, mongodb