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Came across this fascinating article on ZDNet, they say a picture is worth a thousand words and that’s certainly true in this case. The first show’s the system calls that occur in a Linux Server running Apache
and the second image is of a windows Server running IIS:
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Cool find! The pictures really bring home the distinction between a clean architecture and a tightly coupled one.
Comment by Ian Davis — February 7, 2007 @ 9:02 am
I find those images a bit problematic. Neither does the author refer to any kind of method that was used nor are the images zoomable in a way they would actually show names of functions being called.
Though I could well imagine that IIS is more complex in means of internal structure I find that these images in the context do not prove or show anything
Comment by Eric — February 7, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
The pictures weren’t produced by the author, the discovery was made by Sana Security. It might be an idea to ask them for some more details?
Comment by nadeem.shabir — February 7, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
I had a look at their website. I could not locate the images and the report adhered to it.
I did not bother to contact by them about it but I found it curious nontheless.
Comment by Eric — February 7, 2007 @ 7:46 pm