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Karbon The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx

There are a few benchmarks of Apache 2.4: 1. http://www.eschrade.com/page/performance-of-apache-2-4-with-... 2. http://mondotech.blogspot.ru/2012/02/apache-24-vs-nginx-benc... 3. http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/2012/02/apache-24-faster-than-ng...

Karbon The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx

Are you joking? Check the changelog of the open-source version. http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES

Karbon The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx

Apache 2.4 isn't event driven. The Apache's Even MPM only handles keep-alive connections asynchronously, while the whole request processing is still synchronous. It solves only one problem of Apache, but it still doesn't make it as scalable as nginx.