Brian Shire is Facebook's technical lead for PHP internals and a developer for the Alternative PHP Cache (APC). Facebook is an amazingly popular social network, of which Brian has been a part of for the last year and a half focusing on performance and scalability. Other interests include embedded software, learning Japanese, and sailing.
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