A more efficient LAMP
Many web-based applications
generate dynamic content in whole or in part from a
backend server. Where the backend is designed as connection-oriented,
there is a mismatch with the request-oriented HTTP protocol. This
can easily lead to inefficiency in applications.
The most common case is that of an SQL backend, where there is
always an overhead to creating a connection and logging in.
This is exemplified by the environment commonly known as LAMP
(Linux, Apache, MySQL, [Perl|PHP|Python]).
When the connection is TCP/IP over a network, that is an additional
overhead.
