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by tootie
3928 days ago
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Firstly, I'm flattered that I sound like not a n00b :) I should say that I haven't ever really tried this at production scale. My background is mostly consulting wherein my responsibility is to deliver a provably working solution for someone else to manage and operate. So there's my bias in this. Other commenters have made a lot of the points I would. You can easily handle TLS in Java or JavaScript. Or you can terminate with an ELB as I usually do. A lot of load can be pushed to a CDN. But really, I'm not convinced it would be that much slower. I know this dated, but a simple apache bench test shows Tomcat outperforming httpd for static assets [1]. I've never had a site that was remotely bottlenecked by static assets, but I've had many bugs due to obtuse mod_rewrite configs. It's cheaper to have to fewer bugs than to spin another server. [1] http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump/Tomcat-Benchmark-Proced... |
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