Have you wondered if the Apache Software Foundation is overextending itself while rivals like NGINX dig deeper into its core web server business? Consider this. The 17-year-old foundation -- whose ...

I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...

Some parts of the platform stack are so ubiquitous that they are almost transparent. Commercialized web servers were the first part of the Internet to make the jump from service providers to ...

Facebook open-sources Proxygen, it custom-built HTTP stack written in C++, but those already on Apache or Nginx probably won't swap yet Facebook has long been a poster child for building your own ...