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I have always been fascinated by CGI, since you can offload a lot of work to the web server and then concentrate on the real business logic. Less documented/ta
by madduci 3y ago
I have always been fascinated by CGI, since you can offload a lot of work to the web server and then concentrate on the real business logic.
Less documented/talked about are performance tracking and optimisation of code that gets running on it.
- groestl 3y agoYou lose flexibility though. On the JVM, application containers are basically the same idea, so we started out that way. But the industry arrived at an embedded model, where the application would ship with the servlet engine and be responsible for starting the webserver, so as to be able to control every aspect of the web stack.