Dewald Botha
open source web thoughts
Archive for November, 2008
lyme, a stack of scalability
Nov 25th
so last week i’ve been to a conference in good ol’ silicon valley -
a lot of focus on scalability and performance. that being said – i’ve decided to be proactive and try out a stack i’m totally unfamiliar with, but apparently with great potential.
lyme – linux, yaws, mysql, erlanglinux - the tried and tested platform, open-source, and where all good things start.
yaws - yet another web server written in erlang, supposedly outperforms apache with throughput and parallel sessions.
mysql – i’m just a big fan, what can i say
erlang - the language, created as a general purpose, concurrent language
so finally i got my lyme stack running More >
ip’s, geolocations and whatnot (demo)
Nov 11th
so i took some time and did an ip2location lookup demo which will tie in very nicely with my next big post. this i’ve used in conjunction with a spatial system (explained in my previous post) done with google maps and a bit of black magic.
this service was developed in my time at azapi – and they were so kind to host it for me
so have a look at how this feature can be used – in a visually stimulating way
- oh, one more thing – this demo will only work completely if your in South Africa – my geo-ip database is More >
hello
Nov 4th