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• wccrawford 16y ago
  "Despite its emphasis on security, OKWS shows performance advantages relative to popular competitors: when servicing fully dynamic, non-disk-bound database workloads, OKWS's throughput and responsiveness exceed that of Apache, Flash (the reigning king of Web server performance) and Haboob (an academic system reputed to be the fastest Java Web server on the block). Commercial experience with OKWS suggests that the system can reduce hardware and system management costs, while providing security guarantees absent in current systems." That's why.
  • bradleyland 16y ago
    I'm not sure "hardware and system management costs" are the biggest challenge a startup like OK Cupid faces. When you look at the cost of development for something like a web server, you really have to ask if that money wouldn't have been better spent acquiring customers while building your app on one of the myriad of excellent server/framework/language stacks available today.
    • qaexl 16y ago
      With their concept of "free-standing services" for each endpoint, it sounds like they took the idea of CGI scripts and compile the logic against an HTTP wrapper. It -could- work if the build process spits out separate binaries from a single source base. I think I'll stick with using elastic computing to scale horizontally and spend resources on customer acquisition instead.
    • brown9-2 16y ago
      Wikipedia says OKCupid launched in 2004 - are they still really a startup?
  • Ramone 16y ago
    It's hard to buy the competitive advantage argument. Why open source it if that's the case? I think they must realize it's not a core part of their business.
    • lukeschlather 16y ago
      It predates their business.
  • getsat 16y ago
    I probably wouldn't use the fact that my software has higher throughput and responsiveness than Apache as a selling point. That also describes almost every other webserver out there (especially nginx).