Some Links Related to Internet Server Performance

Reading Lists from Courses at Several Universities

• High-Performance Internet Systems and Applications
  Tim Brecht, University of Waterloo (a relatively old course).
• Large-Scale Networked Systems
  Instructor: Azer Bestavros (with help from Mark Crovella and John Byers), Boston University.
• Web Architectures: Future Challenges
  Instructor: Tarek F. Abdelzaher, University of Virginia.
• Internet Services,
  Instructor: David O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University

Web Server APIs

• Using Web Server APIs
• CGI vs. Web Server APIs
• FastCGI
• APIs Supported by the Zeus Server

Potentially Useful Links

• IBM Adaptive Systems Department
• Network Performance Links
  Web100
  Net100
  maintained by Tom Dunigan.
• IP Network Emulation Resources
  maintained by Pei Zheng.
• Web Polygraph
  is a freely available benchmarking tool for caching proxies, origin server accelerators, L4/7 switches, content filters, and other Web intermediaries.
• Web Traces and Logs
• PHP
• Caching PHP
• libevent - an asynchronous event notification library
  by Niels Provos.