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"It turns out there is a hack in FreeBSD, invented by Filo, that causes the O/S not to give a new connection to the server until an entire HTTP request has arri
by Luyt 16y ago
"It turns out there is a hack in FreeBSD, invented by Filo, that causes the O/S not to give a new connection to the server until an entire HTTP request has arrived."
I wouldn't call it a hack, but a feature ;-)
# Buffer a HTTP request in the kernel
# until it's completely read.
apache22_http_accept_enable="yes"
Is HackerNews web scale?
- makmanalp 16y agoWhat does "web scale" mean? I see it thrown around a lot without much explanation.
- klochner 16y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
- Luyt 16y agoA transcript can be found at http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ "Shards are the secret ingredient in the web scale sauce. They just work."
- Luyt 16y agoI think it means that your web app can survive being slashdotted. So, a lightweight C10K-capable frontend, all static content on a CDN, everything heavily cached, database queries optimized to the hilt, etc... etc... Some people think that just using a NoSQL database is sufficient, but there's much more to it. Interesting talk on this stuff (was posted on HN earlier): http://ontwik.com/python/django-deployment-workshop-by-jacob-kaplan-moss/ http://ontwik.com/python/django-deployment-workshop-by-jacob...