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 I don’t think much of it is out of date at this point but nginx isn’t represented.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)
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!
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.
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.