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FastCGI is a binary protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server.It is a variation on the earlier Common Gateway Interface (CGI). FastCGI's main aim is to reduce the overhead related to interfacing between web server and CGI programs, allowing a server to handle more web page requests per unit of time.
Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use Nginx, [10] often as a load balancer. [11] A company of the same name was founded in 2011 to provide support and NGINX Plus paid software. [12] In March 2019, the company was acquired by F5 for $670 million. [13]
Igor recalls the principal difference with the popular Apache server - the ability to work with multiple users in a single running process, saving memory and CPU resources. With his aversion to marketing and sales , Igor wasn't seeking to start a commercial company, but first investors started approaching him, and in 2010 he had a meeting with ...
Unicorn is a Rack HTTP server to serve Ruby web applications on UNIX environment. It is optimised to be used with nginx . It is based on now deprecated Mongrel 1.1.5 from 2008.
Microsoft's ASP.net State Server technology is an example of a session database. All servers in a web farm store their session data on State Server and any server in the farm can retrieve the data. In the very common case where the client is a web browser, a simple but efficient approach is to store the per-session data in the browser itself.
Django can be run in conjunction with Apache, Nginx using WSGI, Gunicorn, or Cherokee using flup (a Python module). [25] [26] Django also includes the ability to launch a FastCGI server, enabling use behind any web server which supports FastCGI, such as Lighttpd or Hiawatha. It is also possible to use other WSGI-compliant web servers. [27]
With the growing use of the archetypal LAMP, variations and retronyms appeared for other combinations of operating system, web server, database, and software language. For example, an equivalent installation on the Microsoft Windows operating system family is known as WAMP. An alternative running IIS in place of Apache is called WIMP. Variants ...
Fast startup and shutdown are advocated for a more robust and resilient system. X: Dev/Prod parity: All environments should be as similar as possible. XI: Logs: Applications should produce logs as event streams and leave the execution environment to aggregate. XII: Admin Processes