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Interview Apache's Ken Coar On IRC

Posted by timothy on from the beard-of-bees dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Robin 'Roblimo' Miller will be hosting an IRC interview with Ken Coar tomorrow. Registration for the discussion is required. This is your chance to interview Ken Coar directly." Coar sits on the Apache Foundation's board, and has written a few books on Apache besides. You might want to check out the Apache website to catch up on recent developments before taking part, too.

4 comments

  1. Enterprise level hosting by rayamor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I often wonder how apache will come to play in the future of enterprise level hosting. At my company we currently offer a multi-tiered solution where apache sits in front as more of a security/proxy device and handles all SSL communication. On another tier, weblogic, even though it contains its own http services is accessed via the weblogic proxy module in apache. (Same goes for our websphere offering). While there are many benefits to this setup, I often wonder how long a web server such as apache will be needed in this common type of setup. It's forseeable that clients in future time may just connect directly to the application server which sits behind some other type of security device, such as a firewall. What are your thoughts?

    1. Re:Enterprise level hosting by dcocos · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'm not an Enterprise but this is the setup I use on both of the servers I run at home and at a few of the clients I have worked for. Apache in the front Tomcat in the back. I like this setup because if something happens to the app server (or servlet container but the same idea) which is more likely b/c it has custom apps running I can always just put up some static page 'till I get it back online, plus it seems like a lot of the app servers ( I know WebSphere and Oracle do ) actually run a old version of apache. So you are basically doing what they do, but with a more current version of Apache on the front.

  2. Who cares.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Unless it means Faster porn of course?

  3. How to attend? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I sent the application form to receive the information in order to attend to this IRC session, and received no answer.