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MIG-CH mig at campbellhay.com
Sun Aug 7 00:50:30 PDT 2011


I'd be interested to have feedbacks about Unicorn.
We currently use Nginx+Thin and we are quite happy with it for the  
moment but Unicorn seems seducing.

mig

Le 5 août 11 à 19:34, Aleksandar Simic a écrit :

> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Jolyon Pawlyn
> <jolyon.pawlyn at unboxedconsulting.com> wrote:
>> Interesting points, thanks. We were really struggling yesterday,  
>> despite
>> using a load balancer and caching and having load tested with  
>> jmeter. New
>> relic and Airbrake helped enormously but unfortunately we weren't  
>> in a
>> position to spin up more VMs and the SMTP server struggled. All in  
>> all not a
>> great day but slightly unlucky to be in an especially silly part of  
>> silly
>> season. Good news is that despite heavy traffic today, it's  
>> performed well.
>> Would be more than happy to discuss the experience and what we've  
>> learned at
>> LRUG if people are interested. Cheers,
>
> This sounds interesting, especially since you mentioned that you ran
> it under nginx and unicorn. I know some large sites use this setup,
> but then they have also a budget that goes with it that allows them to
> expand onto the virtual instances.
>
> It be interesting to hear how those two components behaved and if you
> had to do any exotic tweaks to them during the "storm".
>
> Thanks,
> Aleksandar
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