Monday, October 12, 2009

I like Unicorn because it's Unix

Unicorn is a "mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend" using's Mongrel's HTTP parser but using a Unix prefork model to service requests. Interesting piece on how the Unix layer can doing the heavy lifting, via syscalls from Ruby.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Yaws

“Yet Another Web server”, this time written in the parallel/concurrency fans’ wünderkind, Erlang.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Emery Berger - The Flux Programming Language

High-level construction kit for gluing together discreet chunks of pre-built (in C) server functionality to make an optimised custom server application without having to deal with any concurrency issues. They've written real-world stuff with it.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Cookies are for Closers: Oren Hurvitz’s Blog » LinkedIn Architecture

Discussion of LinkedIn's back-end architecture. Particularly interesting bit about in-memory data graph; also, apparently no ORM. Eh.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

.:: QuickServer ::. Features

“Open source Java library/framework for quick creation of robust multi-client TCP server applications. Provides an abstraction over the ServerSocket, Socket and other network and input output classes”
Apache MINA - Index

Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. It provides an abstract, event-driven, asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Project Darkstar Community - Home

Open-source multi-player game server written in Java, sponsored by Sun.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

BigVPS - coming soon

Another Xen-based virtual private server hosting farm

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Dovecot

Howto setup a Virtual Mail System with Exim, MySQL, SpamAssassin, ClamAV and Dovecot