Though, if you have no control over what apps you have to support and they are wirtten in multiple architectures... I can totally see where you're coming from.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:48 AM, James Smith <j...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > We have multiple apps, and we just switch in and out our auth/page > wrapper/logging/debugging code as we need to, if some one else comes up > with an app we tell them what they do to get the information and "jobs a > good-un", much simpler than having multiple embedded > login/authentication/... methods... We know because other projects use the > style frameworks you are talking about - and we go you just XYZ, and then > realize that they are using some nginx/psgi/starman solution and have to go > - aargh - no you can't just do that - you will have to re-engineer your app! > > James > On 6/14/2016 3:40 PM, John Dunlap wrote: > > We don't use any of those hooks into Apache. mod_perl invokes our main > handler and, from there, we do everything ourselves. We even built our own > authentication and authorization mechanisms, directly into our application, > instead of relying on Apache to provide them. We've contained all mod_perl > specific code to 2-3 files so that we have more freedom to decide how and > where our application will be deployed. > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:37 AM, James Smith <j...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > >> >> On 6/14/2016 3:28 PM, John Dunlap wrote: >> >> https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-vs-apache-our-view/ >> >> Unfortunately for us we actually use some of those 500 things that apache >> is good at, that nginx doesn't do: >> >> - Making use of all the handler/filter hooks in apache; >> - Fronting a complex web-application, where requests by definition >> take a long time to return (the databases and related queries are complex) >> >> >> >> -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research >> Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company >> registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 >> Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. >> > > > > -- > John Dunlap > *CTO | Lariat * > > *Direct:* > * <j...@lariat.co>j...@lariat.co <j...@lariat.co>* > > * Customer Service:* > 877.268.6667 > <supp...@lariat.co>supp...@lariat.co > > > > -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company > registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 > Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > -- John Dunlap *CTO | Lariat * *Direct:* *j...@lariat.co <j...@lariat.co>* *Customer Service:* 877.268.6667 supp...@lariat.co
