 |
On its own, the Apache server is a bare bones HTTP server engine. But native
capabilities such as server side includes (SSI), add-on's such as PHP or
component systems such as Zope turn Apache into a publishing environment. We'll
look at Salon.com's decision to build a full-featured publishing environment
that provides workflow, styling, and scalability by leveraging mod_perl, XML,
and Java technologies. The architecture of Salon.com's content management,
distribution and delivery systems is the product of its engineers years of
experience with ZDNet, C/Net, and CNN's web publishing properties. We'll
focus on such systems, their design and their implementation.
The broad topics we'll cover:
- Requirements for Managing Content
- Requirements for Content Delivery
- Applicable technologies
- Apache Options
- Salon.com's current solution: Best of breed technologies
- The Publishing Technology Roadmap
We'll walk through the various technologies examined as we narrowed down
our choices of technologies and then take a look at the current state of
the publishing system. Salon.com output's a high daily volume of content
through this system and as we extend it, we expect to solve a number of broad
publishing problems.
Ian Kallen
Manager of systems and software, Salon.com
This talk was presented
07/20/2000, 1:30pm to 3:00pm in Marriott San Carlos III at the
O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention in Monterery, California
|