Last blog post I posed the question, does LAMP need a successor? LAMP, a software bundle comprised of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, currently powers the web, but due to changes in the way consumers operate online, it’s swiftly becoming old-fashioned and too slow for the real-time, cloud and app lovers of today’s internet, not to mention expensive to code for, given the today’s current expectations.

Meet MoNo-MeLi.

• Mongo replaces MySQL as the database of choice – less of a reporting tool, more of a data/document storage system, but with some nice real-time characteristics.
• Node.js is the new mainstream platform, stunningly fast and good at multitasking.
• Meteor is a small start-up in San Francisco, not even in version 1, but has real potential to tie everything together because it makes it easy for the web to go real-time. Have a look at some of their demos for a quick example.
• And Linux is still in the frame, upping its game to stick with the acronym that powers the internet. Node.js is taking an increasing share of its workload, though.

We threw around a few different acronyms here – LMMN, nSLaMM, nJMM – and MoNo-MeLi (moh-noh-mee-lee) won out in the end.

It builds on the successes of LAMP, while offering improvements in a lot of the areas where users are demanding better facilities:

• It slims down the transactions between web-client and server to a bare minimum.
• This means applications don’t have to reload the whole page…
• …and can load in as little as 100 milliseconds.
• The programs require fewer lines of code, meaning shorter development times…
• …and compared to some of the other up-and-comers, there is a lot of online support  for these packages.

You heard it here first. One might say LAMP is on the way out, as it does not offer a High Productivity Real-time web. But MoNo-MeLi is ahead of the pack, eager to seize its throne.

This entry was posted in Web Trends and tagged LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP), Linux, Meteor, Mongo, MoNo-MeLi, Node.js on June 12, 2013 by admin.