Apache
Jim Jagielski is a well known and acknowledged expert and visionary in open source, an accomplished coder, and frequent engaging presenter on all things open, web, and cloud-related. As a developer, he’s made substantial code contributions to just about every core technology behind the internet and web and in 2012 was awarded the O’Reilly Open Source Award and in 2015 received the Innovation Luminary Award from the EU. Jim is likely best known as one of the developers and co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation, where he has previously served as both Chairman and President and where he’s been on the Board of Directors since day one. Currently, he is Vice-Chairman. He’s served as President of the Outercurve Foundation and was also a director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Until recently, Jim worked at Capital One as a Sr. Director in the Tech Fellows program. He credits his wife Eileen with keeping him sane.
The Apache web server has been around for 20 years. But it’s not your father’s web server. Apache httpd has performance, capability, and features that make it the premier server. Apache supports event-based, asynchronous processing, both in-server (mod_php) and FastCGI (FPM) PHP support, full dynamic reverse proxying and backend health-checks, just to name a sampling. Get […]