2 September 2009
Frameworks have changed the way we develop web applications and many amazing products and services have been delivered as a result.
As developers we take these [frameworks] for granted, they help abstract a lot of the day to day leg work of our applications, and help us develop features more quickly.
This is great in the early days of an application’s lifetime when it’s helpful to be able to rapidly innovate and release new features, but as your user base grows and your application needs to scale, the speed and convenience of these frameworks can hold some hidden pitfalls that we should be aware of.
Recently we came across one such pitfall in the way Tactile CRM is built – we use a custom framework but are slowly migrating our code to the Zend Framework.
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