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Mongrel2 and high performance web sites (Changelog Interviews #34)

Author
Changelog Media
Published
Wed 08 Sep 2010
Episode Link
https://changelog.com/podcast/34

Wynn caught up with Zed Shaw’s non-rockstar alter ego to talk about Mongrel2, high performance web sites, guitar, and software community ponzi schemes.


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Show Notes:


  • Mongrel2 - an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.

  • Original mongrel

  • _why an anonymous and prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer programmer notable for his work with Ruby

  • Unicorn - Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend

  • Thin A fast and very simple Ruby web server

  • 0MQ Fastest. Messaging. Ever.

  • Node.js Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.

  • Nginix is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev

  • HAProxy The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

  • Twisted an event-driven networking engine written in Python

  • libevent Asynchronous event notification library

  • EventMachine fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs

  • Websockets - technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channel, featured in Episode 0.3.1

  • SPDY - An experimental protocol for a faster web

  • Fretwar The guitar competition and social time waster.

  • LayerTennis from Coudal

  • MP3 streaming demo in Mongrel2

  • Librelist a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects.

  • Dethklok, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica

  • Wynn asks if Rails is still a ghetto

  • Joyent

  • Ajax.im an open-source, extensible, theme-able instant messaging framework.

  • Qt Cross platform UI framework

  • Awesome window manager is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X

  • Vimperator Vimperator is a Firefox browser extension with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing.

  • Screen screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

  • Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.


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