Sometimes development projects just drag on and on… and sometimes resistance is futile when it comes to NIH. I swear that the Borg got me the last six months when I started switching over to Cake PHP and an MVC Architecture.
It’s not that I like or enjoy assimilation, but every time I analyze the requirements it really comes down to scalability and what it takes to scale and deploy your software architecture as it out grows one, two, “N” servers.
Even though there are some clever platforms, and most of web applications I’ve developed so far can run on a virtual private server (VPS), the Google App Engine by far ensures “scale up to millions of users without infrastructure headaches.”
So I’ve been assimilated. Resistance was futile. No more Cake PHP …