Soon, the OpenStack Object Storage software will be released. It’s available now as a Developer Preview if you would like to contribute, or perhaps if you’re just curious. The first release is expected later this month. This is a fantastic piece of software that really hits the mark for scalability, high availability, and performance.
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Today Rackspace and NASA announced OpenStack as a coordinated open development project with 28 participating partner companies and growing. NASA contributed source code from its NOVA project for running a large scale computing platform called Nebula. Rackspace contributed source code for its Object Store, used to host the Cloud Files web storage service. The API [...]

I wrote an experimental web server today that keeps some internal statistics. It’s based on libev for the purpose of comparing performance to an equivalent libevent server implementation. During my benchmarking, I sent 10,000 test requests to the server using the ‘ab’ utility from the Apache httpd software distribution using various concurrency levels. What I [...]