Marc-André Cournoyer's sideblog

“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

EventMachine VS Twisted

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:54:47 -0500

EventMachine VS Twisted: EventMachine VS Twisted

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.

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:18:08 -0500

[11:06pm] 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.
[11:06pm] wayneseguin: I'd like to test with more sources
[11:07pm] macournoyer: that seems big to me, but can you compare that to something else?
[11:07pm] macournoyer: is it good?
[11:08pm] wayneseguin: Not entirely sure, that satisfied the clients needs
[11:08pm] macournoyer: ah ok
[11:08pm] wayneseguin: Plain mongrels were bombing out by that point

"Extracting controller outside of rails using Rack on Thin"

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:57:13 -0500

“Extracting controller outside of rails using Rack on Thin”

- Last 100 meters Skinny Request, Fat Backend - Scaling Rails

hamster vs door

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:43:51 -0500

hamster vs door

InfoQ: Thin The Fast Ruby Web Server

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:02:47 -0500

InfoQ: Thin The Fast Ruby Web Server

Ruby 1.9 Google TechTalk by Matz

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:36:45 -0500

Ruby 1.9 Google TechTalk by Matz

"I enabled and tags in my blog comments. Because seriously, who does that."

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:00:31 -0500

“I enabled and tags in my blog comments. Because seriously, who does that.”

- who does that :: snax

Gary Haran.com » Rails Development With The Thin Web Server

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:25:02 -0500

Gary Haran.com » Rails Development With The Thin Web Server

"We’re keeping our eyes on Thin over at Twitter"

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:45:35 -0500

“We’re keeping our eyes on Thin over at Twitter”

- Bouncing from handlers into Rails with Thin? - thin-ruby | Google Groups

"I run this Typo blog on Ruby 1.8.6p111 and Rails 2.0.2 with no caching enabled. It runs with Thin..."

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:51:29 -0500

“I run this Typo blog on Ruby 1.8.6p111 and Rails 2.0.2 with no caching enabled. It runs with Thin over unix sockets. Nginx is the front-end, balancing two thin processes. By parsing the Rails logs for req/sec lines, I have an average of 881 requests per second.”

- Thin performance - my experiences : Almost Serious

nick - HasFinder -- It's Now Easier than ever to create complex, re-usable SQL queries

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:25:13 -0500

nick - HasFinder -- It's Now Easier than ever to create complex, re-usable SQL queries

Single file Rails Application using Thin

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:42:43 -0500

Single file Rails Application using Thin

Podcast: Conversation with Standout Jobs’ Fred Ngo

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:50:53 -0500

Podcast: Conversation with Standout Jobs’ Fred Ngo