Shane Hathaway on April 2nd, 2009

At the Zope sprint held during PyCon 2009, we had a multi-day discussion about the Zope publisher.  Some people were expecting a fight between Jim and me about the best way forward.  So what happened?  Read on!

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Shane Hathaway on March 25th, 2009

I have been planning to compare mod_wsgi with paste.httpserver, which Zope 3 uses by default.  I guessed the improvement would be small since parsing HTTP isn’t exactly computationally intensive.  Today I finally had a good chance to perform the test on a new linode virtual host.
The difference blew me away.  I couldn’t believe it at [...]

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Shane Hathaway on February 19th, 2009

I’m starting to get a sense of what publisher functionality I can put in a WSGI pipeline and what I shouldn’t.
The pipeline is very useful for specifying the order things should happen.  For example, the error handling should be as early in the pipeline as possible, so it can handle many kinds of errors, but [...]

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