To offset the length of the article, I’ll be brief: my deep dive into Amazon’s PHP libraries for AWS is now available. Enjoy!

It’s not blatently obvious, or mentioned in detail, or even shown in any of the examples or introductions to the service.

But it’s true: Amazon’s new Elastic MapReduce service supports mapper and reducer scripts written in PHP. PHP 5.2.6 is installed in the environment created by the MapReduce job flows.

Make sure to include this in your reading today. Read it slowly, perhaps a few times. It’s interesting stuff to keep in mind if you’re concerned about achieving maximum performance in your PHP applications.

Thanks Gopal Vijayaraghavan, link via Greg Beaver.