Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi, One of the first things I would look is their job postings...if they are switching, that would be one sign. Indeed, I saw a few software development jobs on amazon asking for Java and C/C++ experience. Only found one asking for any two of Java, C/C++, and Perl. Of course, this is just

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 23 Feb 2008, at 07:25, Jie Gao wrote: Choosing java for better performance would certainly be a joke. Java isn't slow you know :) Memory usage, well, that depends. But it's not slow. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread deepfryed
I think what Jie meant was "choosing java *just* for performance would certainly be a joke" On 2/23/08, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23 Feb 2008, at 07:25, Jie Gao wrote: > > Choosing java for better performance would certainly be a joke. > > > Java isn't slow you know :) > > Mem

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 23 Feb 2008, at 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what Jie meant was "choosing java *just* for performance would certainly be a joke" Ah. Sorry. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Geoffrey Young
Jonathan Vanasco wrote: I've heard from a few reputable sources that Amazon is looking to drop mod_perl, and push into another technology ( which I've also head is likely to be Java ). I always thought amazon was a good argument for perl but not mod_perl - last time I looked they were using

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Tina Müller
hi, On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Michael Lackhoff wrote: In a recent issue of the German iX magazine there was a report about a similar migration (www.mobile.de I think). I would like to comment on that article. I think it is very important to read this article less as a "Everyone should migrate to J

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:25:42PM +1100, Jie Gao wrote: > > Choosing java for better performance would certainly be a joke. If a > java solution fails, it would be an industry-standard failure, backside > covered. :-) > Just a variation on the old, "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM." Rega

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread J. Peng
modperl is fast, but it consumes too much memory. so we choose fastcgi written by C++. On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:25:42PM +1100, Jie Gao wrote: > > > > Choosing java for better performance would certainly be a joke

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Tina Müller
offtopic: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: modperl is fast, but it consumes too much memory. so we choose fastcgi written by C++. actually it consumes less memory than FastCGI if you do it right. If you load as many modules and data structures as you can at startup time, Apache will share

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard from a few reputable sources that Amazon is looking to > drop mod_perl, and push into another technology ( which I've also > head is likely to be Java ). Amazon uses Mason with FastCGI. They have never used

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Tina Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: > > > modperl is fast, but it consumes too much memory. > > so we choose fastcgi written by C++. > > actually it consumes less memory than FastCGI if you do it right. If you > load as many

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread J. Peng
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Tina Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > offtopic: > > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: > > > modperl is fast, but it consumes too much memory. > > so we choose fastcgi written by C++. > > actually it consumes less memory than FastCGI if you do it right. I

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread Tina Müller
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: > > > modperl is fast, but it consumes too much memory. > > so we choose fastcgi written by C++. > > actually it consumes less memory than FastCGI if you do it right. If you > load as many modules and data structures

Re: Amazon

2008-02-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
J. Peng wrote: Apache with prefork mode can share the memory? Sorry I didn't know it. Sharing memory between multi-processes need extra programming, I don't know apache has done it already. Both prefork and worker models share memory. fork() takes all of your pages and marks them "copy on wri