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I’ve been playing with Web Sockets using Google’s Chrome browser. Web Sockets, put simply, is a really nice way for a web application to talk to a remote server and allows the remote server to talk back. There are currently various ways of doing this with using Comet. But let’s be honest. [...]

I’ve been meaning to post these results for a while and with the Thanksgiving break here in the US, I have time to finally do it.
When I ran my my original comparison, both the tests and databases were running on the same host connecting over the loopback interface. Using the loopback interface is a [...]

One of my big complaints with Apache MINA is the high latency that’s incurred when sending data. MINA uses a set of I/O threads to handle reads and writes. This is typical of many non-blocking I/O frameworks.
Netty is much more clever than MINA. In Netty, when you make a call to send [...]