It is interesting to see that on the high scalability side designs seem to end up with a 'single threaded' (one or at most a few threads per core) architecture, running many non-blocking tasklets concurrently using event driven scheduling. The underlying architectural patterns of for example nginx and the erlang VM are quite similar. The pattern seems to apply to some of the N*SQL databases as well.

--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, "mariuz" <mariuz@...> wrote:
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> Why nginx is better ? is the architecture : simple and better and yes the author did ASM programming too
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> http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html
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> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4669234
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