Simon Willison’s Weblog

pear 0.8. “A libevent/pyevent-based locking session daemon for the web”. Relational databases aren’t particularly well suited to the access characteristics of session data.

Posted 4th March 2007 at 9:19 pm

Recent articles

Introducing gisthost.github.io - 1st January 2026
2025: The year in LLMs - 31st December 2025
How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" - 26th December 2025

libevent 4 python 1219 sessions 6

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe