This is a continuation from the last time I benchmarked node vs. clojure for hard computation, sort of. This time ’round I decided to benchmark how many concurrent requests a single process of technology X can handle. Threading is fine.   tl;dr —> node is fast but a bit unpredictable, django fails a lot, tornado [...]

Image by jimmagz via Flickr Now this is the story all about how My blog got flipped, turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I fucked it all up so damn well In West Apache born and raised On the playground where it spent [...]

When I took a break from php three months ago I’d been up to my shoulders in the technology for about five years – I remember my first interactions with the language were figuring out whether I need to use .php3 or .php4 or just .php file extensions. But that’s not very interesting. A more [...]