Web 2.0 Kit/Olio - Reference Architecture for web 2.0
Overview
Most web2.0 sites today use open source languages and frameworks such as
PHP, Ruby on Rails and Java EE to develop their applications. Deployments of
these applications also use popular open source servers such as Apache
httpd, MySQL, memcached and glassfish. Many other servers/technologies such as
lighttpd, mogileFS, mongrels, JRuby are also gaining popularity.
With the myriad technologies available, it is not easy to understand
how they differ, especially in terms of performance and scalability. With
varied levels of documentation available for some open source applications,
it is also quite difficult for a web2.0 startup to understand the correct
manner of usage of these technologies so that they don't become a bottleneck
as their site grows.
Web20Kit / Olio
To help understand the differences in these various web technology stacks and infrastructure
applications, we developed the web20kit which has now been open-sourced
and is an Apache Incubator project called Olio .
web20kit / Olio is a Reference Architecture to help both emerging and established
organisations evaluate the suitability, functionality and performance of web technologies.
Olio defines an example web application (a social events calendar)
and currently provides two implementations of this application: PHP and Rails .
The kit also defines ways to drive load against the application in order to measure
performance.
Features
- Understand how to use various web2.0 technologies such as AJAX,
memcached, mogileFS etc. in the creation of your own application. Use
the code in the application to understand the subtle complexities
involved and how to get around issues with these technologies.
- Evaluate the differences in the implementations: php and rails
to understand which might best work for your situation.
- Within each language implementation, evaluate different
infrastructure technologies by changing the servers used (e.g:
apache vs lighttpd, mysql vs postgre, ruby vs Jruby etc.)
Resources
More Information
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