A community site’s posts table stays in the tens of thousands while bp_activity reaches millions, because it records everything: an update, a comment, a friendship, a group join,…
APC is talked about as “the PHP cache”, and it is two caches in one extension. The opcode cache stores compiled files and requires nothing from the application.…
PHP-FIG accepted PSR-1 and PSR-2 in August, and the useful thing about them is not that any particular choice is correct. Several are plainly arbitrary. It is that…
Everything else in a WordPress install is a post, so the first instinct with a BuddyPress group is a WP_Query against some post type. There is not one.…
Four unversioned libraries in application/libraries, two of them edited in place. Moving the application onto Composer and PSR-0 without giving up the framework’s own loader.
The honest starting position on a codebase written before anyone here wrote tests is that most of it cannot be instantiated. Constructors open database connections, classes read $_POST…
With prefork and mod_php, every Apache child has the interpreter and all of its extensions linked into it, regardless of what that child is currently doing. Forty workers…