Greg Wilkins gave the following session at JavaOne 2014 about Servlet 3.1 Async I/O. It’s a great talk in many ways. You get to know from an insider of the Servlet Expert Group about the design of the Servlet 3.1 Async I/O APIs. You get to know from the person Read more…
I’ll be attending JavaOne Sept 29 to Oct 1 and will be presenting several talks on Jetty: CON2236 Servlet Async IO: I’ll be looking at the servlet 3.1 asynchronous IO API and how to use it for scale and low latency. Also covers a little bit about how we are Read more…
While Jetty has internally used asynchronous IO since 7.0, Servlet 3.1 has added asynchronous IO to the application API and Jetty-9.1 now supports asynchronous IO in an unbroken chain from application to socket. Asynchronous APIs can often look intuitively simple, but there are many important subtleties to asynchronous programming and Read more…
Jetty 9.1.0 has entered round 8 of the Techempower’s Web Framework Benchmarks. These benchmarks are a comparison of over 80 framework & server stacks in a variety of load tests. I’m the first one to complain about unrealistic benchmarks when Jetty does not do well, so before crowing about our Read more…