It has been a while since I last announced one of our releases, but it has been a long time since the last one, so this one deserves some credit. We’ve been really busy implementing a lot of stuff that is really going to make life easier for all the guys out there that are using web servers. We are not done yet, and this one is a maintenance release that doesn’t really show most of what we’ve been doing. It doesn’t make sense to do so until we’re ready. Nevertheless, it adds lots and lots of improvements, and some bug fixes.

As always, a lot of development effort is being invested in our flag product, and this is something that doesn’t go by unnoticed. And just in case you haven’t noticed, take a look at  Cherokee 1.0.9 (and be amazed) ;-)

I hope you enjoy it. Feedback and feature requests are more than welcome at the mailing lists. Here are links to download the tarball and the online documentation.

I’m sure that meeting many of the developers of Cherokee in person will be the highlight for me.

If by any chance you’ll be in Madrid that weekend, don’t forget to register in time and join us.

It’s gonna be legen… wait for it… dary!

You can read Alvaro’s announcement, or you can check out the Summit web-site.

Cherokee will be an important topic, but it won’t be the only one. Those will be a couple of days fully dedicated to High Performance and Scalable Web topics, so there’s room for everyone to join in.  We are commited to reaching the 1.0 milestone of Cherokee by then, so we will also have a party to celebrate it.

It’s going to be fun. I’ll be a speaker at the summit and I’m really looking forward to personally meeting many of the members of the project. Thanks to our sponsors we’ve managed to make the event completely free, so don’t forget to register while we still have free spots!

UPDATE: We’ve written a little brochure (~100KB) that can be used to  let your colleagues know about the summit. Do not hesitate to send it to any coworker or friend who would be interested in attending a High Performance and Scalable Web event.

We wanted to brag about our little baby. After all, not every serious web server out there has a killer interface to configure it. Take a look at our Cherokee Web Server introductory screen-cast.

You might want to see it at full screen for readability.

It’s just one of many to come. We’ve got some more planned, so I’ll let you know when they’re ready.

If you expect a party kit from us you’ve come to the wrong place. We actually believe our software is so good that it is a prize for its own merits. It has been a while since I last announced one of our releases, mainly because I didn’t have much to add besides what was told on the official announcements. As always, a lot of development effort is being invested in our flag product, and this is something that doesn’t go by unnoticed. This weekend we decided to release Cherokee 0.99.25. As you can tell by the .25 part, lots of fixes and enhancements have been added steadily release after release.

I hope you enjoy it. We’ve tried to update all the documentation for this release, and we’ve automated most of the recipes in our cookbook by adding lots and lots of configuration Wizards, so hopefully you’ll be able to set up anything in a matter of seconds. As always feedback and feature requests are more than welcome at the mailing lists. Here are links to download the tarball and the online documentation.

Yep. It is! Octality‘s first and very own Sun Fire 12000. Yes, I know it was recently retired by Sun, but still 52 processors and 288GB of RAM make a hell of machine to test things on. The photograph was taken this morning at the storage room.

Being dedicated to High Performance does have its benefits, don’t you think? It’s deffinitely getting interesting around here. I bet not many start ups get this kind of hardware after just a few months of existence.

By the way, this fella isn’t precisely small. It is 191x85x166 cm and weights 987kg.