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Jitterin' Thoughts[Jitterin' Thoughts] The great thing about his session is that not only did he touch on some philosophical issues he was dealing with - the undertone and focus of the talk was how to tweak lighttpd to do better at running not only Rails applications, but also deal with issues bandwidth people like me hate: waste - he also went into detail on how things like mod_proxy are supposed to work and what is going to be done to fix them (with regards to melding a number of mod_'s into mod_proxy). It seemed that he was focused on doing it right instead of simply trying to please everyone who uses his product (although it was obvious he was open to making improvements and adding features).

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[Vmunix.com] FastCGI, SCGI, and Apache: Background and Future at VMUNIX Blues: Both mod_proxy and FastCGI share the feature that all of the memory hogging application stuff is kept out of the front-end server, which means that you can scale the front-end up to handle a larger number of requests without running out of server memory. It also keeps the applications self-contained in the back-end servers which has benefits for reliability (one application can’t take out another), deployment (easy to turn applications on and off) and security (each application can run as a different user, with limited access).

http://www.simplicidade.org [Simplicidade.org] Notes: There where three presentations: one by João Gomes about Catalyst, another by me about POE with an example of process control, and the last one by Miguel Duarte about when not to use Perl, which was, as you can expect, a hot topic. If you are interested in Perl and live or work around Lisboa, please join our mailing list (instructions can be found at the Lisbon.pm website).

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