The latest episode of the /Dev/Hell podcast has officially been released, Episode #45: Single Quotes for Web Scale, as hosted by PHP community members Ed Finkler and Chris Hartjes (and joined by guest Steve Corona).

This week is all about PERSONAL BRANDING and WEB SCALE with special guest Steve Corona. We talk about Steve’s book Scaling PHP. We also reminisce about the old days of Twitter API dev, until Steve humiliates Ed by not knowing what Spaz was.

Topics mentioned in this episode include the Scaling PHP book, Twitpic, double quotes versus single quotes in PHP and horizontal versus vertical scaling. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly.

The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest episode with hosts Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon - Episode 24: But Is It Web Scale? They're also joined this time by Steve Corona, author of Scaling PHP.

Most of this conversation centers around Phil and Ben’s horrible facial hair with a few questions thrown Steve’s way to educate us on getting the most out of your LAMP stack. The main takeaways are to stop using Apache and to start using Postgres.

You can listen to this episode in a few different ways. You can either use the in-page audio player, download the mp3 or you can watch the video of the live recording (Google Hangout).