Putt's law:

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. -- Archibald Putt

Recently Microsoft released its opcode caching solution for PHP on Windows. On techPortal we've published a benchmark. In this article, I want to look at things from a manager's perspective.

As PHP extends its reach further into corporate networks, IT managers have yet another technology that they have to understand so that they can properly deploy. In many situations, PHP code is being developed that - running on its own - creates a bad user experience because of the nature of the language. Because each PHP script has to integrate and compile all of the files with code in them before the results can be output, the more complex systems get, the longer it can take for scripts to respond to their client. Much of this delay, and the user unhappiness that always accompanies it, can be mitigated with the proper opcode caching solution.