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The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2): nginx
nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free open source web server written by Igor Sysoev, a Russian software engineer. Since its public launch in 2004, nginx has focused on high performance, high...
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Dear GitHub, Please Let Us Build Plugins
Plea to Github to open the door to third party tools
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2): Scalable Web...
Open source software has become a fundamental building block for some of the biggest websites. And as those websites have grown, best practices and guiding principles around their architectures have...
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of...
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The Performance of Open Source Applications. MemShrink.
Firefox has long had a reputation for using too much memory. The accuracy of that reputation has varied over the years but it has stuck with the browser. Every Firefox release in the past several years...
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The Performance of Open Source Applications. Ninja.
Ninja is a build system similar to Make. As input you describe the commands necessary to process source files into target files. Ninja uses these commands to bring targets up to date. Unlike many other...
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The Performance of Open Source Software
This collection of case studies is our attempt to fill that gap. Each chapter is written by real developers who have had to make an existing system faster or who had to design something to be fast in...
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Warp
Warp is a high-performance HTTP server library written in Haskell, a purely functional programming language. Both Yesod, a web application framework, and mighty, an HTTP server, are implemented over...
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The Performance of Open Source Software
Zotonic is an open source framework for doing full-stack web development, all the way from frontend to backend. Consisting of a small set of core functionalities, it implements a lightweight but...
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
he Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) started as part of an academic research project funded by the UK government at the beginning of the 1990s, with several goals in mind: To make freely available a...
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Parsing XML at the Speed of Light
XML is a standardized markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding hierarchically structured documents in a human-readable text-based format. XML is in widespread use, with documents...
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications: LLVM
This chapter discusses some of the design decisions that shaped LLVM1, an umbrella project that hosts and develops a set of close-knit low-level toolchain components (e.g., assemblers, compilers,...
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