DevHacker Noonabout 4 hours ago
AMPED Architecture: 1999 Blueprint for Efficient Web Servers
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The 1999 Flash web server introduced AMPED, an asymmetric multi-process event-driven architecture that routes requests in a single loop while offloading slow disk operations to helper processes. Benchmarks showed up to 50% more throughput on disk-heavy workloads. The pattern persists in Nginx, Node.js, and Go.
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