When you're designing a web
application, scalability and performance are very important. Every
developer must take these two steps into consideration before building
their application. To do this effectively, you need the best tools. Here
are 10 of the most popular ones.1. Apache HTTP Server: Extensible, fast and highly scalable. These are the qualities of the Apache HTTP server that make it immensely popular. Of course, there are other features too.
2. Tomcat: This open source software holds configuration and management tool. While the Apache Tomcat tool is an implementation of Java, it can also be configured using configuration files from XML. You can use it to implement JSP along with Java servlet specifications.
3. Modsecurity: This is a web application firewall that can be embedded into the web server infrastructure. It is also amongst the top available open source WAF solutions.
4. Memcached: This is an open source distributed caching system that is generic in nature. It has a simple design and delivers very good performance.
5. Varnish: This is a web application accelerator or HTTP reverse proxy. It is a very high speed software that can speed up the process delivery immensely.
