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 [...]

Today it’s the one month anniversary of Cassandra graduating to a top level Apache project. It now has a new and improved project URL: http://cassandra.apache.org Recently you may have noticed my writing about Drizzle, but that’s not the only database system I love. I’m also a fan of Cassandra, and I’m proud to work with [...]

You might think that if you want faster internet performance, you can simply get a connection to the internet that has higher bandwidth. When you get a “faster” internet connection you may observe faster downloads. But it’s less frequently the additional bandwidth, and more frequently reduced latency that actually produces increased interactive web performance. This [...]