Marc-André Cournoyer's sideblog

Smallish blog posts, quotes, links I don't bother to write on macournoyer.wordpress.com
May 06
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» Slicehost Articles: Ubuntu Hardy - thin web server for Ruby
May 05
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» Lighthouse is running on Thin
Apr 23
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» Great review of Standout Jobs
Apr 09
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» Salesforce on Rails » Presentation on Thin
Mar 31
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» Realtime and Embedded Software Design
Mar 06
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» Inside the LinkRiver Favicon Server - Ruby + Nginx + Thin + Rack
Feb 29
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“ How does non-blocking I/O provide better throughput? The OS schedules the user process differently in the case of blocking and non-blocking I/O. When you block, the process “sleeps”, which leads to a context switch. When you use non-blocking sockets, this problem is avoided.
— High-Performance Networking Programming in C
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» EventMachine VS Twisted
EventMachine VS Twisted
Feb 27
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  • wayneseguin: 6 thins per slice over 8 slices can sustain 6 million hits per day with the Rails app we tested on (it did use memcached) from 4 distinct siegeing locations over the net.
  • wayneseguin: I'd like to test with more sources
  • macournoyer: that seems big to me, but can you compare that to something else?
  • macournoyer: is it good?
  • wayneseguin: Not entirely sure, that satisfied the clients needs
  • macournoyer: ah ok
  • wayneseguin: Plain mongrels were bombing out by that point
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“ Extracting controller outside of rails using Rack on Thin
— Last 100 meters Skinny Request, Fat Backend - Scaling Rails