arkh

> The rise in popularity of Laravel making it the de-facto choice of framework within PHP.

In the US.

> What edge does PHP still have compared to other languages?

Horizontal scaling due to the nothing shared architecture: need more perfs? Add a server. Which is an exact match with Kubernetes (replace server with replica). But usually your performance problem is not the executing code but the database.

> PHP needs to get rid of having Nginx/FastCGI as a requirement. Let PHP-FPM speak HTTP directly. If you want to terminate TLS via Nginx, it becomes a choice, not a requirement.

FrankenPHP is this.

Seems like your beef is not with php itself (aside from the compiling part) but the Laravel ecosystem. You may want to check Symfony and its ecosystem and what is being cooked outside Laravel.

> if you have thousands of microservices

You just replaced ns memory accesses by ms API calls. Just the moment people were starting to maybe start thinking about performances again this train-wreck of power wastefulness had to appear.

One of the advantages of an autocracy: you don't need people's approval every 5 years so you can plan for decades. When you're right it is awesome. When you're wrong, well that's what the army is for.

There is also some indirect bonus: if people's healthcare is not tied to their employer then it's easier to look for a new one. Also if the system is done well, then many companies would lose the incentives they currently have for not giving full-time employment.

> Don't reinvent a type system

I'd like to add: stay away from using arrays and user defined types. They feel like a good idea at first, but will become a problem when using fetched data in your code.

And another miss, if you're managing your servers: pgtune. The default postgres configuration is very conservative regarding resources so you can get good performance gains just by adjusting them to your server specifications.

> “you can’t do crimes on our servers”, “you can’t host malware on our servers”

So most of the cryptocurrency projects.

> I'll spin up a "quality pass" agent that will make sure all tests/lint etc. pass

Why would you need an agent more than one time to create a script then use one command to launch it? What's the added value of the agent there?

I'd like to add: pgbench? Why not HammerDB?

> The next one is likely to be a doozy

The US, EU, China are teetering on the edge of a crisis. Russia is well on its way.

I feel like 2008 was just a warmup to what may be coming.

Personally: forums are mostly about one subject, have a community and you have to invest some time learning the lay of the land to get the most out of it, get some reputation. Reddit? It's just drive-by commenting. I get points? Cool. I get banned? Next account. No avatar, pseudonyms almost hidden it is not a social media, it's unsocial.

> The CCP is darkside material.

And which country has "Black Sites" peppered around the world to detain and interrogate people they don't like?

> What else can you do?

Educate the parents maybe?

> we expected people we hire to know what they are doing

I feel this is a generational thing. Many baby-boomer parents never took the time to teach their children any skill. They thought they learnt it by osmosis I guess. Their generation outsourced everything they could.