[erlang-questions] Erlang Web Servers challenge

[Ivan Uemlianin]

Most of the web server benchmarks I've come across on the web suffer 
from the same flaw: a partisan of server X tests a highly tuned and 
optimised install of their favourite server against default installs of 
competitor servers.  These kinds of benchmarks are really not worth 
anything.

I think it's a good idea to set a challenge, and invite server 
developers to show how their own project can meet the challenge.

The first step is to devise a challenge, and this is not a trivial step. 
  This step is actually listing the essential functional requirements of 
a web server.  The ability to serve a static file promptly from disk is 
one requirement, but these days I shouldn't think it's the only or even 
the main one.

I think it might be interesting to agree on a small set of requirements 
and then devise a challenge which could test those requirements.

Best wishes

Ivan


On 06/07/2011 12:59, Zabrane Mickael wrote:
>>>
>> Why is nginx outside of the challenge scope?
>
> Nginx or anything else are out of scope[1] at this time.
> This will not prevent you to write a simple cache in (pure) Erlang for
> the challenge.
>
>> If you want "to compare Erlang Web servers with other competitors (not
>> written in Erlang)", surely nginx is one of the main competitors?
>
> Yes, but Nginx is written in C.
>
> [1] I'm planning to ask the authors of the other tools (like Cherokee,
> Apache2, Lighttpd + Nginx, Varnish, ...)
> and let them know about the challenge (with the same rules of course).


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