Advantages of using PHP on microservices
To understand why PHP is a suitable programming language for building microservices, we need to take a small peek into its history, where it comes from, which problems it was trying to solve, and the evolution of the language.
A short history of PHP
In 1994, Rasmus Lerdorf created what we can say was the first version of PHP. He built a small suite of Common Gateway Interfaces (CGIs) in the C programming language to maintain his personal web page. This suite of scripts was called Personal Home Page Tools, but it was more commonly referenced as PHP Tools.
Time passed and Rasmus rewrote and extended the suite so that it could work with web forms and have the ability to communicate with databases. This new implementation ...
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