Intro

It’s a not so well kept secret that CakePHP is slow. What isn’t well know is that this is done by design. I could get in a lot of trouble by revealing this, but I’m willing to take that risk. I have records, a paper trail a mile long, showing members of the Cake dev team investing heavily in the stock of Dell, IBM, Cisco and other server companies. We’ve all heard the expression “hardware is cheap, and programmers are expensive.” The Cake team figure out how to monetize that by making a framework that is fast to develop with, but slow to run. They want you to throw more hardware at it. Ingenious, right? Well I’m here to end all of that. Every time you use one of the tips in this article it’s one less gold chain on the neck of a Cake developer.

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