[Buffalo-pm] September Perl Mongers Meeting

Kevin Christopher bpm at binarymojo.net
Thu Sep 4 16:06:21 CDT 2003


We're set with the room. Fuller description of next Thursday's topic follows:

Regularly Scheduled Perl Mongers Meeting
Thursday, September 11
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Bell 242
UB North Campus

FastCGI and mod_perl: Serving Up Dynamic Content Faster

Jim Brandt, analyst with Administrative Computing Services, University at
Buffalo, and Kevin Eye, Web applications developer with Creative Services
and Marketing Department at University at Buffalo, will compare mod_perl
and FastCGI, two nonproprietary solutions for accelerating dynamic
content.

mod_perl brings together two of the most powerful and mature technologies
available to the web professional today. mod_perl can accelerate your
existing dynamic content with the standard Apache::Registry module and
reduce the load on your server at the same time. mod_perl allows Perl
programmers to write powerful custom Apache modules to extend and tap into
the power of the world's most popular http server.

FastCGI is a fast, open, and secure Web server interface that solves the
performance problems inherent in CGI, without introducing the overhead and
complexity of proprietary APIs. FastCGI's advantages include performance
boosts through persistent processes reused to handle multiple requests;
simplicity, with easy migration from CGI, and language independence.

-Kevin





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