There’s a nice analogy of this described here: https://www.tumblr.com/daverecycles/3104767110/explain-event-driven-web-servers-to-your-grandma Relevant text from the above link: Explain “Event-Driven” Web Servers to Your Grandma You’ve heard the term event-driven, event-based, or evented when it comes to web servers. Node.js is based on evented I/O. nginx is an asynchronous event-driven web server. But what does the term mean? … Read more
An alternative (not using ServeMux) solution is to serve explicitly each file located in the root directory. The idea behind is to keep the number of root-based files very small. sitemap.xml, favicon.ico, robots.txt are indeed mandated to be served out of the root : package main import ( “fmt” “net/http” ) func HomeHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r … Read more
Using Fusion 6.0.2 on OS X 10.9 Mavericks In the host system (Mac) turn off your virtual machine open the “Virtual Machine | Network Adapter | Network Adapter Settings…” menu in the “Bridget Networking” section choose “Autodetect”: turn on your virtual machine In the guest system (Win7) right click on the Notepad application, then select … Read more
There isn’t one right answer to this question, but here are some things to keep in mind: With the right amount of horizontal scaling, it is quite possible you could keep scaling out use of the debug server forever. When exactly you would need to start scaling (or switch to using a “real” web server) … Read more
Synchronous: A synchronous request blocks the client until operation completes. In such case, javascript engine of the browser is blocked. Asynchronous An asynchronous request doesn’t block the client i.e. browser is responsive. At that time, user can perform another operations also. In such case, javascript engine of the browser is not blocked.
Update, Spring 2018: I wrote this response in 2010 and since then, a whole lot of things have changed in the world of a web backend developer. Namely, the advent of the “cloud” turning services such as one-click load balancers and autoscaling into commodities have made the actual mechanics of scaling your application much easier … Read more
To turn off and disable Skype usage of and listening on port 80 and port 443, open the Skype window, then click on the Tools menu and select Options. Click on the Advanced tab, and go to the Connection sub-tab. Untick or uncheck the checkbox for Use port 80 and 443 as an alternative for … Read more
Most of the times these terms Web Server and Application server are used interchangeably. Following are some of the key differences in features of Web Server and Application Server: Web Server is designed to serve HTTP Content. App Server can also serve HTTP Content but is not limited to just HTTP. It can be provided … Read more