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Because your company and personal sandbox are valid representation of a mail system that serves millions of people. When either of your servers do that you can post bullshit like this.

Hell, even the company I work for has outages for both proactive and reactive maintenance, and that's only for 5000 people.

To say that because you've never had an outage you never will have an outage is absurd.

On top of this, saying that google should "have a backup" is silly. Do you even understand how redundancy works? Do you even understand how web based mail systems work? I really don't think so from this comment. If the error has nothing to do with servers falling over and is an issue with routing then you can have all the redundancy you want, but it won't make a difference.

At this stage it's any comments are merely conjecture, until google make a press release advising of what happened comments like "have a backup" are just troll posts.

I have had a gmail account since 2002, however if you rely on gmail as a business email you seriously need your "head testing". The same goes for any other free service. You do realise that google is full of spyware now in the advent of anti-terrorism laws and M$ is far worst, I just do not think you know how paranoid gov agencies are and how all our rights are being eroded. Try and use an open source web search engine in future http://www.us.apachecon.com/c/acus2009/sessions/427 and never use a free service... Remember you never get nothing for nothing.

The first thing that meets the eye is that they ask for money in order to attend. Quite a lot really.

A good alternative is the book by OReilly - Web Performance Tuning (http://www.website-owner.com/books/servers/webtun ing.asp).

Dw.

If you're really looking for excitement, there is always ApacheCon in Las Vegas.

Sorry for the plug, but I thought may be interested. :)

However, his name doesn't seem to appear in either the apache httpd or mod-perl credits file, and I can't dig up any evidence of him having participated in any other mailing list. He's never posted to the kernel mailing list, the perl mailing lists (on the basis that somebody using mod-perl might also be interested in Perl more generally), or anything much else.

I don't know what the guy was up to at IBM, but to describe him as a technical leader of the Linux community would appear to be a considerable exaggeration. Somebody who actively adopted Linux for business use, perhaps, but he's hardly Robinson Crusoe there.

Anyway, I hope the movie is good.

I did a little searching based on the phrase "replace HTTP" and found the link

http://apachecon.com/2001/EU/html/speakers.html

Which points to decsriptions of workshops and seminars being discussed at Apachecon, the parts relevant to this discussion being:

Roy Fielding
Sessions: waka: a replacement for HTTP

Roy T. Fielding is chairman of the Apache Software Foundation and chief scientist at eBuilt, Inc.
He is a founder of several open-source software projects (including Apache httpd), architect of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1), and co-author of the Internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). He received his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.

There is a popup link that says:

The waka protocol is designed to be a replacement for HTTP as the primary application-level protocol for the transfer of hypermedia information over the Web. It is based on the same architectural principles as HTTP/1.1, but without the baggage of preexisting syntax restrictions. Waka has a tokenized, self-descriptive syntax for communicating multiple asynchronous data streams over a single transport connection. This talk provides an introduction to the waka protocol and insights to its eventual impact on the Web Architecture.

Sounds impressive to me, does anyone else know more?

This paper was presented by the authors at Apachecon 2001 in Santa Clara, last April. The [ApacheCon.com]session info is still (sort of) online. Cool stuff.

The office is located near University Town Center in mid-San Diego and we've got just about every geek toy known to man and woman.

Every engineer has access to at least one (some have two) 500 Mhz systems on their desktop and a room full of dual and quad processor development systems. All running Linux (actually the beam-it client was developed under BeOS and ported to Linux and Windows).

We've really got a sharp bunch of engineers and if you're smart, know Perl, Unix, some sql, enjoy reading /., playing UT and working hard, get off your duff and send in your resume. You're missing a great opportunity. Think about working with 40 smart engineers who know perl inside and out; write apache content-handler modules because its cool, and match up 40 year old programmers with 18 year old network wizards in two hour UT games.

You would have enjoyed the cheer that went through the engineering department when the reverse engineering posting came up. Whoohoo! People get it.

Seriously, MP3.com is a great place to work and is far from a stodgy corporate environment - heck, our cafeteria has been decorated to be a blues club lounge and we have bands play at least once a month in the office.

We'd like you to come work with us and continue to change the face of music on the planet.

Oh, one more thing, if you're going to ApacheCon, check out the presentation on dynamic content delivery using templates and XML components.It's our home-grown dynamic content delivery system in Apache.

C'ya