Everything is Unix

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"Recently there has been some chatter on various programming blogs about how we should be using classic Unix features to build more scalable infrastructure. This all started when Ryan Tomayko wrote I like Unicorn because it's Unix. The gist of that post was that Eric Wong's Unicorn, an HTTP server written in Ruby, performed extremely well despite being written in Ruby because Eric wasn't afraid to drop down to the lower-level Unix system calls instead of using the language's traditional higher level abstractions.

"Ryan does an excellent job of explaining exactly how following age-old Unix design patterns and using those system calls is the right way to go. He provided the code for a simple TCP "echo server" that can handle clients very efficiently. Not to be outdone, other popular scripting languages saw their advocates step forward with examples of doing the same thing. In Python is Unix, Jacob Kaplan-Moss provides a Python implementation of the same echo server. In Perl is Unix, Aristotle Pagaltzis presented a Perl implementation of a pre-forking echo server as well."

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