In the post on benchmarking HTTP performance I mentioned that according to my tests a cluster of Mongrels performs about 10-20% worse than the same number of FastCGI processes behind a reverse proxy. Recently I tried Thin, a new web server based on Mongrel libraries, and it turns out to be a solution that gets […]
Adam Byrtek
Sceptical Point of View
deployment
Benchmarking HTTP performance
Deployment of Rails application is a subject that tends to raise some hot discussions, leading to many misunderstandings. That’s why I decided to try different deployment strategies and check for myself how they perform.
To make any reasonable comparisons it is crucial to measure performance of different configurations. The most common metric is the number of […]
