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There are several popular choices when it comes to which protocol to use for
Web service backend software. In this post, I take a look at the available
options and—spoiler alert—come to the conclusion that HTTP is the
winner. Yes, HTTP. The one and same protocol used to actually communicate with
the Web browser, should also be the one used to communicate between the
Web server and the application itself.
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One of the more formative moments in my career as a programmer and as a coder, was the insight that I gained when I truly understood what an event loop is. In fact, until I did, I thought the same thing as some others out there do: that glib, Qt, APR, etc. all provide “event loops”. But, they do not. What they do do, is provide a useful abstraction of the underlying event loop so that programmers can focus on their logic without mucking about the system.
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