Ryan Tomayko

Traffic Server Proposal —

Yahoo!’s proposal to open source their “fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server” as an Apache project:

Traffic Server fills a need for a fast, extensible and scalable HTTP proxy and caching. We have a production proven piece of software that can deliver HTTP traffic at high rates, and can scale well on modern SMP hardware. We have benchmarked Traffic Server to handle in excess of 35,000 RPS on a single box. Traffic Server has a rich feature set, implementing most of HTTP/1.1 to the RFC specifications.

Rad. I know Yahoo! runs a custom build of Squid as well so I’m curious to understand where this thing came from. The proposal states that it was originally acquired from Inktomi and has been in use for some time.

Public Service Announcement: the "P" in "HTTP" stands for "protocol" —

I’ve written this same exact blog post a dozen times. For some reason, each hop along what should be a pure HTTP pipeline wants to invent their own psuedo-protocol for transferring HTTP messages. Why?! Your reimplementation of HTTP is not going to be any less complex — by definition, it must be at least as complex; and your reimplementation is definitely not going to be less buggy than the real HTTP implementations that have been around for a decade or more.

This is why can’t have nice things …

Apache 3.0 (a tall tale), Roy Fielding —

Nice ApacheCon EU ‘08 presentation (warning: video + slides, no transcript) covering various blue sky stuff on Roy’s brain for Apache and HTTP.

The immediacy of PHP —

David Heinemeier Hansson: “PHP scales down like no other package for the web and it deserves more credit for tackling that scope.”

Agreed!

ArchitectNotes - Varnish —

“I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occation to do so, I invariably found that people programmed like it was still 1975.”

Reverse proxy roundup —

Bob Ippolito wrote up some pros and cons to reverse proxy implementations in different servers a few months back. I don’t think much of it is out of date at this point but nginx isn’t represented.

Configuring Apache httpd —

Starting with absolutely no configuration file. This is why I’ve prefered lighttpd, because I can put together a separate config in about five minutes. httpd’s sprawling default config has always scared the crap out of me.

What nine of the world’s largest websites are running on —

Linux, Apache, PHP, and memcached are the big winners. Nice to lighttpd represent.

A little REST and Relaxation —

How long has this been floating around? Roy Fielding on building the web… (via Aristotle Pagaltzis on rest-discuss)

Java's Overton Window [blog.case.edu] —

Oh, wow. Have we come that far, then?

Squid is My Service Bus [mnot.net] —

Bingo!

Ruby on Rails: FastCGI on OS X

Dealing with marketing types... —

Nice python-list thread with Paul Rubin challenging my ibm-poop-heads article and Andrew Dalke (and quite a few others) champions it. This discussion is worth more than the original article!

Caching CGI generated content on Apache —

Various methods of caching dynamic content.

Building a Large-Scale E-commerce site with Apache and mod_perl —

Disects the components of a large scale e-commerce site run on Apache/mod_perl with some Berkeley DB and Oracle thrown in for good measure.

ModPython Wiki —

A wiki…. About mod_python..

mod_python - Integrating Python with Apache —

Nice article on how mod_python integrates with apache. Goes into significant detail on non-CGI type stuff you might want to do.