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Is Nginx Scalability Beating Apache?

The open source web server Nginx has been winning an increasing amount of interest among the developer community in recent months. This is the finding of Internet research analysts Netcraft in its January 2012 review of the world web space. Of the 583 million sites now estimated to be on the Internet, Nginx added 6.9 million new hostnames in the last month of 2011.

Acknowledging the existence of competitors in this market, cofounder of Nginx Andrey Alexeev explained that while Apache was always meant to be a general purpose web server, his company's offering has set out to "overcome certain barriers in Apache architecture" as he puts it; i.e., the associated application software. Nginx is said to interact with application servers, with memcached/NoSQL solutions, and can put on a fair job of handling SSL too. It can also do HTTP streaming for FLV/MP4 videos and load balance across backend applications.

Speaking directly to Dr. Dobb's, Alexeev said that Nginx is a good choice

Source: Dr. Dobb's

Oracle Fusion Middleware Security: Using Apache to simulate an SSL ...

by Chris Johnson (Oracle)

As members of the Fusion middleware Architecture Group (ie the A-Team), we get exposed to a wide range of challenging technical issues around security and Oracle Fusion Middleware. We are using this blog to respond to common questions and provide interesting solutions for real-world scenarios that our customers face every day. The numbers indicate the TCP port used by the server side. All red lines are HTTP. The green line (from the SSL server OAM) OAM protocol is the PAN. Unfortunately I have a load balancer (F5, in this particular case) on hand so I need to be a little 'creative.Apache, mod_proxy and a little 'elbow grease can do the same for testing simple. In case you need to do the same thing here's a quick setup, you can copy / paste to get you going....

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Apache OpenOffice security fixes emerge

Register - Dec 31, 1969

By John Leyden • Get more from this author Details have emerged about the security fixes that came bundled with Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, the latest version of the open-source productivity suite. Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, released last week,

Apache details OpenOffice 3.4 security fixes

The H - Dec 31, 1969

Following the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 last week, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has now detailed the security fixes included in the new version of the open source productivity suite. According to the ASF, the first stable release of

Cloudera Named a Finalist for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Americas Award

MarketWatch (press release) - Dec 31, 1969

PALO ALTO, CA, May 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based software, services and training, today announced it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Americas award, a prestigious

Even More Enhancements With Apache Subversion 1.7.5

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Dec 31, 1969

SAN RAMON, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- WANdisco, a leading provider of Apache Subversion-based software and services for the enterprise, and a major corporate contributor to the Subversion project, has announced that the latest release of Apache

The unsexy side of big data: 6 tools to manage your Hadoop cluster

GigaOM - Dec 31, 1969

Apache Ambari is an open source project for monitoring, administration and lifecycle management for Hadoop. It's also the project that Hortonworks has chosen as the management component for the Hortonworks Data Platform. Ambari works with Hadoop