I find the following verbiage at http://cherokee-project.com a little strange:
>> One of the intended objectives is being able to turn the server's hard >> drive into the effective bottleneck of the system. That is a lot. With >> each release we get closer to our goal. Admittedly, a very tough goal >> to reach. After that there's really not much left to do to improve a >> High Performance web server such as Cherokee. << In particular: "After that there's really not much left to do to improve a High Performance web server such as Cherokee." The above places a specific shelf-life on the Cherokee project as far as innovation is concerned. While I recognize the reasoning, placing the hard drive at the center of I/O operations seems to neglect the fact that we're well into the transition between magnetic media and RAM-based distributed storage (e.g. memcached), using the hard drive as nothing more than a long term storage system. AKA, Magnetic Drives are the new Tape. Could I suggest a rewrite of the above to something similar to: >> The speed at which any web server can serve requests for content is >> both directly tied to and limited by the I/O speed of underlying >> hardware and operating system. In this regard, a web servers >> performance is measured by the latency incurred after an I/O request to >> the underlying system has completed. The primary objective of the Cherokee project is to reduce to zero the latency incurred between the time a dynamic or static system I/O request has completed and the time the resulting content is served to the requesting client. Admittedly, a very tough goal to reach. In fact, it might be impossible. But achieving that which was once seen as impossible is what drives innovation. And it's innovation that drives the ongoing development of the Cherokee project, bringing us closer to the impossible with each new release. << ? Okay, that last parts a little cheesy, and even the first part is only a suggestion. But placing a shelf life on project innovation isn't what I would term a strong elevator pitch, which is exactly what those first two paragraphs represent. Keep up the great work! :D -- /M:D M. David Peterson Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban, LLC Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: (206) 999-0588 http://3rdandUrban.com | http://amp.fm | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://news.oreilly.com/m-david-peterson/ _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
