As any readers of the iContact blog may have learned, MogileFS has become an integral part of our infrastructure at iContact. Rather than store the bodies of messages in our database, we moved them to a quick&dirty storage method in our infrastructure long ago. This method was essentially a cheap WebDAV server and [...]
To run the class I posted yesterday, I typically use a class called DaemonRunner. This class sets up for proper signal handling, and ‘executes’ the class extended from Daemon.
declare(ticks=1);
class DaemonRunner {
public static function exec($className) {
$argv = $_SERVER['argv'];
[...]
PHP (or any language for that matter) can just as easily be used as a daemon as on the web. This can be especially useful when solving problems that can’t “complete” in less than 500 ms which one shoots for on the web. As you write an application to handle things such [...]
