Comments on: Web Scalability Practices: Bumper Sticker on Rails

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By: Jonathan Boutelle

Jonathan Boutelle — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:38:22 +0000

I second the HAProxy question. Load balancing is CRUCIAL for Rails applications, and it’s not talked about enough! Looking forward to this series as it evolves…

By: asim

asim — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:54:33 +0000

Hey guys, this looks like a very interesting blog and i look forward to reading more.

You serve a high number of requests and use quite a few servers to do so. I’m wondering whether you’ve considered nginx -> haproxy -> mongrel to load balancing any mongrels that die. Also thin as a replacement to mongrel.

I’m quite interested in your use of masochism also and how you find that with reads from slave servers that may not be upto date with master writes.

By: Ujjwal Trivedi

Ujjwal Trivedi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:58:19 +0000

Thanks! It would help org take better decisions. specially people who suspect ruby due to performance and scalabiloty issues