After having some discussions on spdy-dev and having some experience with our current push implementation, we’ve decided to change a few things to the better. Jetty now sends all push resources non interleaved to the client. That means that the push resources are being sent sequentially to the client one Read more
We have SPDY to SPDY and HTTP to SPDY proxy functionality implemented in Jetty for a while now. An important and very common use case however is a SPDY to HTTP proxy. Imagine a network architecture where network components like firewalls need to inspect application layer contents. If those network Read more
This blog is an update for jetty-9 of one published for Jetty 7 in 2008 as an example web application that uses Jetty asynchronous HTTP client and the asynchronoous servlets 3.0 API, to call an eBay restful web service. The technique combines the Jetty asynchronous HTTP client with the Jetty Read more
Having discussed the business case for Jetty 9 and SPDY, this blog presents a simple tutorial for runing PHP web applications like WordPress on Jetty with SPDY. Get Jetty First you’ll need a distribution of Jetty, which you can download, unpack and run with the following (I use wget to Read more
So you are not Google! Your website is only taking a few 10’s or maybe 100’s of requests a second and your current server is handling it without a blip. So you think you don’t need a faster server and it’s only something you need to consider when you have Read more
The folks at Plumbr have done some interesting data harvesting from the anonymous phone home data provided by the free version of their memory leak detection system. This has allowed them to determine the most popular application servers from their user base. From over a 1000 installations they were able Read more
Jetty 9.1.0 has entered round 8 of the Techempower’s Web Framework Benchmarks. These benchmarks are a comparison of over 80 framework & server stacks in a variety of load tests. I’m the first one to complain about unrealistic benchmarks when Jetty does not do well, so before crowing about our Read more
Since we discovered how to make Jetty-9 avoid parallel slowdown, we’ve been continuing to work with micro benchmarks and consideration of Mechanical Sympathy to further optimise Jetty-9. As we now about to go to release candidate for Jetty-9, I thought I’d give a quick report on the excellent results we’ve Read more
How can the sum of fast parts be slower than the sum of slower parts? This is one of the conundrums we faced as we have been benchmarking the latest Jetty-9 releases. The explanation is good insight into modern CPUs and an indication of how software engineers need to be Read more
Jetty 9’s NIO code is a nearly complete rewrite with improved architecture, cleaner and clearer code base and best of all it’ll be even faster and more efficient than jetty 7/8’s NIO layer. Detecting concurrent code issues is usually not a trivial thing. In today’s blog I will describe how Read more