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• 17 May 07
  

  Ken Wei

  multiple-processes multiple-threads performance rails ruby scalability scaling

  • Something that doesn't get a lot of attention is it's scalability solution: FastCGI. Partly because it doesn't seem very exciting on first glance and partly because it's so fundamentally different to how "enterprise systems" have traditionally scaled.
  • Each thread handles a number of requests at the same time, as one request waits for IO it moves on and processes another request.
  • The other way of scaling this is with a larger number of threads, each thread processing only one request at a time. As one request waits on some form of IO operation the thread blocks and dispatches to another thread.
  • We've slowly learnt to deal with them and have built up a toolbox of quite effective tools around them (J2EE being one of them).
  • Ruby on Rails and FastCGI scales in a completely different way.

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• 27 Mar 07
  

  Danny

  delicious performance ruby rubyonrails

• 20 Nov 06
  

  Matti Narkia

  rails ruby fastcgi rubyonrails Scalability java scaling cgi multithreading concurrency comparison imported delicious to_read

• 23 Aug 06
  

  Jason Reis

  architecture cgi performance comparison concurrency deployment development fastcgi framework j2ee

• 25 Jul 06
  

  Zhe sto

  247up imported delicious rails sysadmin tuning

• 17 Dec 05
  

  David Slattery

  development Ruby

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  Zhe sto on 2006-07-25
  Scaling using processes instead of threads

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