Aolserver Alternatives

aolserver reviews and mentions

• AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2023

  https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver

  “AOLserver is the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in the world.”

  : )

  Surely that title goes to Nginx or Envoy these days.

• The Birth of Tcl
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2022

  My first industry job was almost on Aolserver: https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver#readme but I didn't have the discipline at the time to make it through the tech screen. In retrospect, I dodged a bullet, but I'm still glad I tried it cause it was for sure horizon-broadening

• The first and last time AIM was hacked
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2021

  Oh yeah you are right no jumped to conclusions. Nice link there, the AOLserver tho was just a web server, not the whole server framework or OS. https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver It was written by some company that we bought. It was also the basis for Greenspun’s excellent book on database backed web sites.

  Yeah, and on rereading the original article, the hack was just guessing the passwords to admin AIM accounts. I hope it wasn’t mine! From my perspective that is “works as designed”. I don’t think the TFA was ever put into AIM login, but it was all a while ago. But anyways, nice to seem one of the dumb names I came up with in the press. I also wrote wam (web authentication module), Hermes (messenger of the Gods - like buddy list but where users could add data sources to the list, with filters or alarms), Ewoks (“external web Oscar knowledge server”, an http server that allowed for easy integration into the server message framework we used) and re-wrote morf “master Oscar registration facility”. The original was a custom written no-SQL DB and we moved it to Sybase with sharding.). All C. All event loop based. All really solid infrastructure written by people doing it for the third time. Fun times. Had an actual agile process and brought the coolness of the internet to many people for the first time.

• Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2021

  You didn't look hard enough, companies like https://www.altitude.com and https://www.outsystems.com were built out of my and others experience with those frameworks.

  I could tell how they looked like from startup rooms in little offices spaces in Lisbon back in the early days of .com wave in late 90's, how AOLServer influenced the creation of Intervento's Safelayer framework, or how it got us to be approached by MSFT Portugal for adapting the same ideas to then still alpha version of .NET, however I am the right person to fully tell the story, better let that to the key persons, in case they feel like jumping in.

  In any case, here is some education material for yourself,

  https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/zopebook/index.html

  https://docs.huihoo.com/aolserver/intro/features.html

  https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6164

  https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver

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