"Before we used it in production, I performance tested it - HTTP is really slow"
Slow compared to what? direct memory access?
If you're going to say "HTTP is really slow" I contend you really probably meant "communication over a network is slow"...
Slow compared to what? direct memory access?
If you're going to say "HTTP is really slow" I contend you really probably meant "communication over a network is slow"...
You are correct that this is not the case per-se, and I think there is an implication here that a lot of people really do not think very much about the massive overhead of serialization in general - instead they use a heuristic like "HTTP is slow". And while that heuristic does not capture an accurate model of the problem, it does often point in a direction that will prove fruitful as they grasp about blindly in possible solution spaces.
From memory, after trying the entire abstraction layer, I boiled it down to as small a file as possible for testing purposes (ie. a single PHP file that took the call and stored it into the DB, no configuration, removing as many "variables" as possible).
EDIT: Direct database access over the network.