Ayon Khan

Tech enthusiast, AvGeek, gamer, movie buff, bookworm and traveler. Always on the lookout for new adventures and experiences.

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Just discovered @shottr_cc. Incredibly fast, lightweight, and exactly what I was looking for in a screenshot app. 📸

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

I received a Dark Web Activity Detected alert from @Norton today. Without knowing which account was exposed, what am I supposed to do with this information? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Huge shoutout to @nuxrif, S. M. Raiyan Kabir, and everyone behind UniJoy-macOS. Fantastic work! 👏🏻

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Finally, a PiP I don't instantly disable. @comet makes it feel natural to keep a video up while I bounce between tabs. 👍🏻

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Not sold on it yet, but I'm giving @comet a real test. An AI that reads the same pages I'm reading and tries to help is a weirdly compelling idea.

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[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Trying to opt-in to FIFA PASS, but it won't show the form and keeps asking for a ticket purchase key. Ticket purchased via the FIFA Resale/Exchange Marketplace. Any help? @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWorldCup

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Switched from Safari to @firefox and my old MacBook Pro runs so much faster now. Didn't expect that.

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Anyone know where I can buy the GC01 (Yogi Pad) in Canada? BenQ doesn't ship up north. https://t.co/BycGIdtEdp

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

I just cast my VOTE for THE LAST OF US. Who will you vote for? #TheGameAwards @TheGameAwards https://t.co/eLtXkiSHn5

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Alan Wake Remastered
Follow the Light (Bronze)
You were enlightened by a dream. #PS4share https://t.co/cEaSBelyAV

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Wolfenstein® II: The New Colossus
Revolution (Silver)
Beat the game #PS4share https://t.co/shqIscCy8B

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Wolfenstein® II: The New Colossus
Déjà Vu (Bronze)
Make the choice #PS4share https://t.co/shqIscCy8B

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Restore Balance (Gold)
Defeated the Corrupted Rot God. #PS4share https://t.co/VEgdkVvTjl

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

I'm at Watershed Grill in Squamish, BC https://t.co/G7Z9ZLRo3z

[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

I'm at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, BC https://t.co/FXwkKiQYoP

[Mohamed Said @themsaid]

For many years, I considered all talk about scale to be irrelevant. If you throw enough money at it, any web stack can scale to handle more traffic.

With an abundance of free investor money, I've always believed that startups should choose the stack that allows them to move faster and further.

As focus shifted to profitability in the recent year or two, cost control has become an important concern.

PHP is my favorite programming language, but it blocks execution threads and network connections (DB, HTTP, Cache, etc.). Should we abandon PHP? NO! is my answer! Why should development speed be sacrificed for cost control? Why not have it both ways?

I placed a bet on PHP and added GoLang to the stack and the results exceeded my expectations.

Here's a look at my current stack (for cost control):

1. All web clients talk to a load balancer.

2. The load balancer handles SSL & routes most requests to the PHP monolith.

3. Requests to endpoints that receive high traffic & perform many I/O operations are routed to a Go web server.

4. The PHP monolith & Go server dispatch tasks to the queue & read/write from/to database & cache clusters.

5. A separate Go program handles background jobs (from the queue) and periodic tasks (scheduled).

What do I get from Go?

- Handlers waiting for I/O operations yield to the runtime so others can run.

- I can handle concurrent workloads without having to start new worker processes. Which translates to less memory consumption.

- Network connections are kept alive & re-used.

- Database connections are put back for reuse once the query finishes. They aren't kept hostage until a response is sent.

What do I get by keeping PHP?

The tooling available in the ecosystem (& Laravel in specific) is lightyears ahead. It allows developers to get things done faster by spending their time adding functionality rather than re-inventing the wheel.

Should you switch to this stack?

Are you struggling with compute infrastructure cost at the moment? If the answer is no, stick with PHP. It'll help you move faster, add value, onboard more customers, and hopefully get crazy traffic so you start having infrastructure cost concerns :) That's a nice problem to have, specially that solutions are available.

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[Ayon Khan @ayonkhan]

I just started transferring my domains to Cloudflare, the world's first no-markup registrar. #Cloudflare