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•Title: Hacking Apache HTTP Server at Yahoo!
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•Conference: O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2006
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•Type/Duration: 45m
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•Audience Level: Experienced
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•Audience Type: High-performance web application developers
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Since 1996, Yahoo has been
running Apache HTTP Server on thousands of servers and serving billions of
requests a day. This session reveals the secrets behind "yapache,"
Yahoo's hacked-up version of the Apache web server. Learn how Yahoo gets maximum
performance out of minimal hardware by tweaking configuration directives and
hacking the source code.
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Radwin will cover topics
such as reducing bandwidth costs, extensible logfile format and rotation
schemes, SSL acceleration, fault isolation to prevent disruption of service,
and how to avoid the dreaded MaxClients, Max/MinSpareServers, StartServers
configuration nightmare.
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