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When does PHP become slow? [closed]

I want to build a private online social network for some companies. I know many developers, some of them use PHP, some use Python and some use .NET (ASP.NET). I have heard good things about PHP such ...
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3answers
193 views

How to deal with social login

In my new web app I'm going to allow social login through Twitter (maybe), Facebook and Google and I'm in search of the best way to do it. Actually I'm using Rails with Devise + Omniauth and this is ...
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7answers
1k views

Web framework able to handle many concurrent users

Social networking sites needs to handle many concurrent users e.g. for chat functionality. What web frameworks scales well and are able to handle more than 10.000 concurrent users connected with ...
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4answers
5k views

What do you need to know before you build something like Facebook / Twitter / YouTube? [closed]

Of course you will need a programming language! But what other things that you should know before you build your first steps for a large website which will be for the community! What else do you ...
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Amount of man hours to write a social network

I have big dreams of writing the next Facebook (unrealistic I know) and I'm in the planning stages as we speak and I'm umming and ahing about using a php framework for this and how many development ...