Thanks to all for the excellent and occasionally informative suggestions. I don’t think there’s any risk of my being offered the job, but I wish I’d had the concepts of “web allotment” and “web sharecropper” to hand during the interview.
> On Oct 13, 2015, at 5:13 AM, Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:57:16PM +1300, Andrew Simmons wrote: >> As a diversion from the discussion of the existential essence of Javascript, >> could I ask the group for a view on the meaning of the term "Web Garden"? >> I was just asked about this in a job interview. > > This is a concept that has developed in the Windows world because a lot > of the .net web server tech tends to share state per-process. In order > to have multiple backend processes running on a single server you > generally have to play games with information sharing between processes. > It's just another reason web services on Windows can be such a pain in > the ass. > >> Supplementary question - how would you implement a Web Garden in Plan9? > > We've found it easier to hire more web sharecroppers when yields aren't > sufficient. > > khm >
