This is great news good to see it!<p>What I have been wondering is what happens to the memory footprint? It says somewhere on the site it is reduced by 33% - is that a typical reduction?<p>Also, if this is like mod_perl, deployment wasn't really as simple as it seemed. The general advice on mod_perl was to proxy requests from your front end 'static' webserver to the mod_perl one, because each apache process had to effectively run a Perl interpreter, giving them a big memory footprint. You don't want to use your expensive mod_perl/ruby processes to serve images etc.<p>I also think there are other advantages to running expensive processes behind a proxy (I may be wrong on this one), but I think that slow clients tend to tied up the front end process as it streams the data to them.<p>If you have appServer -> proxy -> slow client, the app server sends the data to the proxy at LAN speed, freeing it to serve another request, and the proxy ties up a process streaming the data to the client.<p>I am not trying to criticize, I am interested in whether they solved these problems (if they even are problems anymore) and how.