http://simonwillison.net/2012-02-29T13:55:00+00:00Simon Willison2012-02-29T13:55:00+00:002012-02-29T13:55:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2012/Feb/29/what-separates-a-cio/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-separates-a-CIO-CTO-and-VP-of-engineering/answer/Simon-Willison">What separates a CIO, CTO, and VP of engineering?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>Jason Hoffman and Bryan Cantrill, CTO and VP Engineering respectively of Joyent, gave an excellent talk on exactly this subject at the Monki Gras conference in London a couple of weeks ago. Their slides plus a video of their talk are available here: <span><a href="http://lanyrd.com/2012/monkigras/sppty/">http://lanyrd.com/2012/monkigras...</a></span></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jason-hoffman">jason-hoffman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/management">management</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bryan-cantrill">bryan-cantrill</a></p>

2007-07-17T13:29:25+00:002007-07-17T13:29:25+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/17/joyeur/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://joyeur.com/2007/07/16/just-what-web-server-should-be-sitting-in-front-of-my-rails-application">Just what web server should be sitting in front of my Rails application?</a></strong></p> Includes some interesting notes about Varnish, PHK’s high performance, highly configurable front-end caching server (essentially a much more modern version of Squid). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jason-hoffman">jason-hoffman</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/joyent">joyent</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nginx">nginx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/phk">phk</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails">rails</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/squid">squid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/varnish">varnish</a></p>