Fri, May 22, 2009 11:34 AM
First there was
LAMP.
But are you using GLAMMP? You have probably not heard of it
because we just coined the term while chatting at work. You
know LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP or Perl and sometimes
Python). So, what are the extra letters for?
The G is for Gearman -
Gearman is a system to farm out work
to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are
better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance
lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.
The extra M is for Memcached -
memcached is a
high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic
in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web
applications by alleviating database load.
More and more these days, you can't run a web site on
just
LAMP. You need these extra tools (or ones like them) to do
all the cool things you want to do. What other tools do we
need to work into the acronym?
PostgreSQL replaces MySQL in lots
of stacks to form LAPP. I guess
Drizzle may replace MySQL in some stacks
soon. For us, it will likely be
added to the
stack. Will that make it GLAMMPD? We need more
vowels! If you are starting the next must use tool for
running web sites on open source software, please use a vowel for
the first letter.
