Social networking giant Facebook has taken another step at making the PHP Web programming language run more quickly. The company has developed a PHP Virtual Machine that it says can execute the ...

The reported Facebook release of a PHP compiler optimized for high-volume transaction services (like Facebook) is yet more evidence the company takes its open source responsibilities seriously. Both ...

Here's an interesting question I found on Quora: "Why hasn't Facebook migrated away from PHP?" Facebook engineer Yishan Sparklepants Wong worked at the company in various roles between December 2005 ...

It seems Facebook wasn’t satisfied with merely building a virtual machine for PHP, HHVM, which compiles that language to C++ for faster execution. Facebook has now gone ahead and made a full-blown ...

Social media giant Facebook appears to have taken measures towards running its production workloads on ARM-powered servers. The move spells double trouble for market leader Intel, as Google has also ...