How Tomcat Works
by Kurniawan, Budi., Paul Deck · first published 2004
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…mostly I just write programs for the computer to execute, not for people to read about it. The ultimate example of Literate Programming is writing a book about your program. I had a book once called "How Tomcat Works", about the web-server called "Tomcat". A great book explaining in detail how Tomcat does (did? )work. But who of us have the time to write a book? My priorities are: 1. Write great code that does…
on “Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)” ↗…getting better. Second, start reading some large code bases. These are often difficult to read, but they can teach some tricks and some methodology. This summer I read Tomcats source code with the aid of "How Tomcat Works: A Guide to Developing Your Own Java Servlet Container."[1] While not enjoyable (it was for my job), the experience was worth doing. In the end, all programmers constantly struggle to make scalable,…
on “Ask HN: Suggested software /design/ books?” ↗