Since more than half a year Lovely Systems is using the extremely fast, super reliable, super easy, super duper NGINX Reverse Proxy. Congratulations NGINX! According to the latest Netcraft Survey 06/2008 NGINX is already number 5 of the Webservers worldwide! Seems like we had the right anticipation :)

As the blog post title mentions - Speed matters. There are some more news… We’re happy to announce that we upgraded our Loadbalancers and finally bought a pair of F5 BIG-IP Loadbalancers. F5 is the global leader in application delivery networking and the products are well known for their stability. To quote Töns Büker, our Servicemanager at o2 (Germany): “Der LB wird aber wahrscheinlich auch noch auf ping antworten, wenn jemand Benzin drübergegossen und ihn angezündet hat …”. After the upgrade we’ll be able to serve up to 650 MBit/s dynamic traffic from our Application Server Cluster and up to 2 GBit/s of static (e.g. Video) traffic from our content delivery cluster. 

Next week we’ll be sprinting in New York/San Francisco to get the Zope3 framework and the first lovely applications running on Google AppEngine. You’re welcome to join us.Google AppEngine is a perfect match to the transition we at Lovely Systems made during the last 12 month in “stealth mode”. We’re using heavily WSGI and are replacing ZODB within most of our applications.Tomorrow we’re leaving to New York visiting our friend reco. dobee and I will be working on getting the component architecture running on AppEngine. Later next week we’ll fly to San Francisco to attend Google I/O and get even more insight to the technology. We’re open to release lovely.nozodb and the related components in near future, as usual - just some polishing missing…Please drop me a note (jodok@lovelysystems.com, batlogg on skype/AIM) or give me a call (+43 664 9636963) if you want to join us.  

we made it. http://www.zoomer.de is finally online.

A large part of the Lovely Team was working hard during the last 6 month to get the thing going.

The Technology behind it? Lovely!

lovely.news = cutting edge Python/Zope3 software, PostgreSQL Databases, ZEO Clusters, WSGI pipelines, Varnish Caches, Nginx Reverse Proxies, F5 Load Balancers.

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The content on zoomer.de? Lovely as well! A young, dynamic team. Backed by long-term news experts. Just watch their video and use zoomer.de :)

Thanks a lot, lovely team. especially quodt, jukart, schwendinger, dobee, jayeff, wolfabua, stmartin, iham, pjee, haudum. you rock!