Category PHP

PHP Coding Standard

Posted on July 30, 2010

Andrzej Tuchołka Lead Code Architect

A coding standard for PHP that we use in Tuenti. Enjoy.

Evolving a Backend framework

Posted on April 16, 2010

César Ortiz Architecture Engineer

The duties of a Backend Software Architect at Tuenti include the maintenance and evolution of the Backend Framework. In this article we will talk about Tuenti's framework evolution, share its pros and cons and briefly introduce its features without entering into many technical or architectural details (as they will be covered in future articles).

Memcache migration

Posted on March 17, 2010

César Ortiz Architecture Engineer

Tuenti is an example of one of the many sites that is currently using memcache to improve performance. It's important to keep in mind that once you start using it your application performance will heavily depend on it. Consequently, if for any reason the memcache connectivity is lost, the user experience will not work as well as intended because it uses memcache as a key element that just failed.